RT Book, Section
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.
SR Print(0)
ID 1190356936
T1 Advancing the Quality & Safety of Care
T2 Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 26e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264269983
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190356936
RD 2024/04/19
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.