In:
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 29, No. 3-4 ( 2001), p. 305-322
Abstract:
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has returned the problem of medical error to the top of the health-care agenda. Its report that 44,000 to 98,000 patients die each year as a result of medical errors in American hospitals has renewed scholarly interest in health system quality control. In To Err Is Human , the IOM provides a vivid picture of a health-care system riven with serious quality problems. It calls for systems-based error-reduction methods borrowed from other high-risk industries and forcefully argues against the traditional tendency to assign accountability primarily to individual physicians. Most errors, the IOM argues, can be successfully addressed by engineering systemic fail-safe protections against the inevitable failings of human actors.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1073-1105
,
1748-720X
DOI:
10.1111/j.1748-720X.2001.tb00350.x
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
2001
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2052584-9
SSG:
2
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