Patient safety proves elusive. Five years after publication of the IOM's 'To Err is Human,' there's plenty of activity on patient safety, but progress is another matter.
Five years after the Institute of Medicine shook up the industry with its To Err is Human report, patient safety is a hot topic, but few hospitals have reached the IOM's goal of halving mistakes by 2004. "We've only begun," says Donald Berwick, left, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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