title: 2016: Creating a Culture of Safety in Oncology.
abstract: Nurses play vital roles in preventing errors and improving the quality of care for patients. However, in the breakthrough Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (IOM, 1999) and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (IOM, 2001), it was estimated that about 44,000-98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical errors. Gibson and Singh's (2003) book, Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes That Kill and Injure Millions of Americans, shared real-life stories of medical mistakes to help raise awareness and create a sense of urgency for the issues surrounding healthcare errors. Gibson and Singh (2003) also included aspects of the human side of errors-the perceptions of the healthcare providers regarding their errors and the responses of patients who had been harmed.  .
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts-Boston.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kennedy Sheldon
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009746:Nursing, Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D061214:Patient Safety; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D017751:Safety Management; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States
keywords: cancer; oncology nursing; safety