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. 2010 Sep-Oct;107(5):320-3.

Patient safety: a tool from Atul

Gerald Early  1
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Patient safety: a tool from Atul

Gerald Early. Mo Med. 2010 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

The 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report estimated that as many as 98,000 medical error related deaths occur each year in the United States; and although some argued the accuracy of the number, few denied the gravity. Medical error produces more fatalities than motor vehicle accidents, or other more publicized nonmedical disasters, and is one of the leading causes of death.

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