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Medical Errors: Physician and Institutional Responsibilities

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In "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System," the Institute of Medicine (IOM) demonstrates that technological advances in the hospital setting do not come without consequences. In this report, the IOM revealed that of the 98,000 hospital deaths that can be attributed to medical errors each year, 90% are the result of failed systems and procedures.¹ Although prevention of these "systems errors" is essential to improving patient safety, institutions and individual physicians continue to struggle in their efforts to foster and participate in cultures of error prevention. The following case vignette illustrates the challenges of error prevention, and . . . [Click for More]

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