The IOM medical errors report: 5 years later, the journey continues.
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine released a report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, which shed a new light for providers and patients across the nation looking at patient safety and medical errors. Since then, new ways of addressing patient safety have emerged. But how far does the healthcare system still have to go?
D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D008318:Malpractice; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D012106:Research; D017751:Safety Management; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality