Becker's Healthcare June 7, 2019
Twenty years have passed since the Institute of Medicine released its groundbreaking 1999 report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” which found 98,000 patients die annually from medical errors, according to AAMC News.
Four major advances in patient safety since then:
1. Two months after “To Err is Human” came out, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a strategic guide to reducing medical errors called “Doing What Counts for Patient Safety.” AHRQ has since innovated other measures to reduce medical errors. Its most recent National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions showed a 13 percent decline in HAIs from 2014-17, representing about 20,500 lives saved.
2. The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals program has published...
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