TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Basic Principles of Patient Safety A1 - Wachter, Robert M. A1 - Gupta, Kiran PY - 2017 T2 - Understanding Patient Safety, 3e AB - Historically, the approach to medical errors had been to blame the provider delivering care to the patient, the one acting at what is sometimes called the “sharp end” of care: the surgeon performing the transplant operation or the internist working up a patient's chest pain, the nurse hanging the intravenous medication bag, or the pharmacist preparing the chemotherapy. Over the last two decades, we have recognized that this approach overlooks the fact that most errors are committed unintentionally by hardworking, well-trained individuals, and such errors are unlikely to be prevented by simply admonishing people to be more careful, or worse, by shaming, firing, or suing them. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146175330 ER -