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- Title
Promoting Patient Safety by Preventing Medical Error.
- Authors
Leape, Lucian L.; Woods, David D.; Hatlie, Martin J.; Kizer, Kenneth W.; Schroeder, Steven A.; Lundberg, George D.
- Abstract
Editorial. Discusses errors in health care and the increased awareness that is needed to solve the problem. The need to redesign systems to make errors difficult to commit, acknowledge risk, and recognize that it is everyone's responsibility; Error analysis; National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) at the American Medical Association (AMA); The role of government in ensuring patient safety; What the next step must be to prevent mistakes.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of medical errors; PATIENT safety; MEDICAL practice; PATIENTS; CARING
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1998, Vol 280, Issue 16, p1444
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.280.16.1444