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Article: Risk management and patient safety: improving patient outcomes.(risk management)(Report)
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- February 1, 2009
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Health care is not as safe as it should be. (1) The fact that our health care system is fraught with accidents, errors and mishaps was brought to the nation's attention in the Institute of Medicine's 1999 report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. As a result, patient safety is the number one priority throughout the health care industry today.
The patient safety movement is marked by numerous federal, state and private initiatives. (2) As early as 1998, the Joint Commission, the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care, began addressing wrong-site surgery in an effort to improve patient safety in hospital operating ...