TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Preface A1 - Wachter, Robert M. A1 - Gupta, Kiran Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Understanding Patient Safety, 3e AB - In late 1999, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM, then called the Institute of Medicine) published To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health Care System.1 Although the NAM has published more than 800 reports since To Err, none have been nearly as influential. The reason: extrapolating from data from the Harvard Medical Practice Study,2,3 performed a decade earlier, the authors estimated that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year from medical errors.* More shockingly, they translated these numbers into the now-famous “jumbo jet units,” pointing out that this death toll would be the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing each and every day in the United States. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146175204 ER -