Spotlight on medical errors

Health care can be hazardous to your health. That was the unmistakable message delivered to Americans by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in its recent report on medical errors. The institute's principal finding did not come as news to health professionals, who have...

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Published inHealth Forum Journal Vol. 43; no. 2; p. 42
Main Authors Ignagni, Karen, Cutler, Charles M
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco The Healthcare Forum 01.03.2000
Subjects
Best practice
Beta blockers
Clinical outcomes
Consumers
Data base management
Employers
Health care
Hospitals
Industrywide conditions
Information sources
Infrastructure
Medical errors
Medical malpractice
Medical records
Patient safety
Personal health
Physicians
Primary care
Uninsured people
United States > US
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Summary:Health care can be hazardous to your health. That was the unmistakable message delivered to Americans by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in its recent report on medical errors. The institute's principal finding did not come as news to health professionals, who have long been aware of the need to more systematically anticipate, identify, and eliminate errors. Now the question is: How is the nation prepared to respond? There is ample cause for concern about the direction in which the political debate may be heading. What is needed now is an increasingly comprehensive information infrastructure - a date-driven matrix of patient protection.
ISSN:1527-3547