When nobody or nothing notices an error, it may turn into patient harm. We show that
medical devices ignore many errors, and therefore do not adequately support patient safety …

A recent report on patient safety by the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Quality of Health
Care in America noted that there are at least 44,000 patient deaths from medical errors each …

The Institute of Medicine's report To Err Is Human described the alarming prevalence of
medical errors and recommended a range of activities to improve patient safety. Three …

Awareness of errors in health care has skyrocketed in recent years, and huge resources
have been mobilised to measure and reduce the harm. This is a good thing, and long …

December 1, 2009, marks the tenth anniversary of the Institute of Medicine report on medical
errors, To Err Is Human, which arguably launched the modern patient-safety movement …

Medical errors account for∼ 98,000 deaths per year in the United States. They increase
disability and costs and decrease confidence in the health care system. We review several …

Article-at-a-Glance Background When patient safety became a subject of policy and
research, the question was how to engage clinicians—perhaps they would respond more to …

The recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on the quality of care, entitled “To Err Is
Human,” has awakened much of the health care system to the challenge of reducing the …

Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors
that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or …

Medical errors cause up to 98,000 people to die annually in the United States. They are the
fifth leading cause of death and cost the United States $29 billion annually (Kohn 1999) …