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Hospital patients still unsafe.

Publication: HealthFacts
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Hospital patients still unsafe.(From the Director ...)(Report)

Article Excerpt
It has been more than eight years since the Institute of Medicine issued its report, To Err is Human, describing the alarming epidemic of medical errors in U.S. hospitals killing 100,000 patients each year. In the report's summary, the Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America (of which I was a member) emphasized the need for urgent action: "The status quo is not acceptable and cannot be tolerated any longer." We challenged policy makers, health care professionals and hospitals to reduce the number...

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