A Decade After ‘To Err is Human’ Report, Patient Safety Challenges Remain
- News digest – Quality/Equality – RWJF
Providers have made significant improvements in patient safety since the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) groundbreaking To Err is Human report, which shed light on the prevalence of medical errors in U.S. hospitals when it was released a decade ago, but many of the report’s recommendations “remain elusive,” Modern Healthcare reports. The IOM report famously determined that as many as 98,000 patients in U.S. hospitals die annually because of “medical harm,” calling for a series of systemic changes and reforms to reduce errors and mortality in the health care industry.
