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Article: IOM medical errors study overstates problems.(Brief Article)
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- Healthcare Strategic Management
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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Has the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) late 1999 report on medical errors, "To Err is Human," sent physicians and health care systems on wild goose chases?
That's the message in the July 5, 2000, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. (JAMA). Worse, a commentary by the lead author of the most important studies of adverse events cited by the IOM also questions the IOM's interpretation of his studies ("The Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Errors--Could It Do Harm?" by Troyen Brennan, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Vol. 342, pp. 1123-1125, April 13, 2000.)
Problem `vastly ...