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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety) (Single Article)
IOM may have underestimated
the patient safety problem
June 2002
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Product Description:
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine
(IOM) issued a report that estimated between 44,000 and 98,000 people every year
are killed by a medical error. But a new report by The Commonwealth Fund
shows the IOM’s numbers may only represent the “tip of the
iceberg.”More than one in five of the 6,722 adult Americans
surveyed said they or a family member had experienced a medical error or
prescription drug error. That’s 22%, which would translate into 22.8
million people nationally who have experienced a mistake, according to the
report entitled Room for Improvement: Patie
