TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Advancing the Quality & Safety of Care A1 - Hyman, Daniel A1 - Bajaj,, Lalit A1 - Nyquist,, Ann-Christine A2 - Bunik, Maya A2 - Hay, William W. A2 - Levin, Myron J. A2 - Abzug, Mark J. PY - 2022 T2 - Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 26e AB - Hippocrates’ famous dictum primum non nocere 2500 years ago may have been the earliest reflection of the importance of patient safety, but the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 landmark report To Err Is Human truly galvanized the current focus on eliminating preventable harm from health care. Its most quoted statistic, that between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die every year because of medical error, was based on studies of hospital mortality in Colorado, Utah, and New York, and extrapolated to an annual estimate for the country. The IOM followed up this report with a second publication, Crossing the Quality Chasm, in which they said, “Health care today harms too frequently, and routinely fails to deliver its potential benefits…. Between the health care we have and the care we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm.” These two reports have served as central elements in an advocacy movement that has engaged stakeholders across the continuum of our health care delivery system and changed the nature of how we think about the quality and safety of the care we provide and receive. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190356936 ER -