RT Book, Section
A1 Wachter, Robert M.
A1 Gupta, Kiran
SR Print(0)
ID 1146175204
T1 Preface
T2 Understanding Patient Safety, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259860249
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146175204
RD 2024/04/16
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.