Achieving Zero Inequity: Lessons Learned from Patient Safety

Recent events (including the Covid-19 pandemic as well as highly visible deaths that have prompted social justice protests) have created a long-needed focus on improving inequities in health care. Patient safety had a similar moment in 1999 when To Err is Human was released, creating momentum to accelerate progress in patient safety. Numerous lessons and strategies that have evolved over the last 20 years in the realm of patient safety can now be...