Promoting Patient Safety by Preventing Medical Error

An editorial notes that to make health care safe, systems need to be redesigned to make errors difficult to commit and a culture needs to be created in which the existence of risk is acknowledged and injury prevention is recognized as everyone's responsibility.

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Published in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 280; no. 16; pp. 1444 - 1447
Main Authors:	Leape, Lucian L, Woods, David D, Hatlie, Martin J, Kizer, Kenneth W, Schroeder, Steven A, Lundberg, George D
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Medical Association 28-10-1998
Subjects:	American Medical Association Editorials Health care Humans Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Medical Errors - prevention & control Patients Quality of Health Care Risk Adjustment Risk Management Safety Safety Management United States United States Department of Veterans Affairs United States
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Summary:	An editorial notes that to make health care safe, systems need to be redesigned to make errors difficult to commit and a culture needs to be created in which the existence of risk is acknowledged and injury prevention is recognized as everyone's responsibility.
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ISSN:	0098-7484 1538-3598
DOI:	10.1001/jama.280.16.1444