An Overview of To Err is Human: Re-emphasizing the Message of Patient Safety

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Now, 7 years after the release of To Err is Human, extensive efforts have been reported in journals, technical reports, and safety-oriented conferences. That literature described the magnitude of problems in a variety of care settings, the efforts to make change, and the results of those efforts in improving patient safety. Many of those studies are referenced and discussed throughout this book. Other authors have written incisively about what progress has and has not been made in the past 7 years and the challenges in creating cultures of safety., The greatest challenge we all face is to learn, use, and share better information about how to prevent harm to patients.