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Article: 10 years after; On eve of To Err's anniversary, changing healthcare world becomes priority.(News)(Discussion)
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- Modern Healthcare
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- September 21, 2009
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Byline: David Burda
It's funny how a big anniversary coming up can motivate people to do the right thing. Nov. 1 will mark the 10-year anniversary of the release of the Institute of Medicine's To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System report. The report's conclusion that an estimated 98,000 people die each year from medical mistakes by healthcare providers thrust the industry's well-kept secret onto the public stage and launched the modern patient-safety movement.
With the debate over healthcare reform raging since the start of the 2008 presidential campaign nearly two years ago, the patient-safety movement was thrown into neutral as the issues of ...