Patient Safety—Ten Years Later (original) (raw)
2010, Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing
December 1, 2009 was the tenth anniversary of To Err is Human, 1 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on medical errors in the health care system. Dr. Wachter notes that this report "arguably launched the modern patient-safety movement." 2 In an updated analysis, Wachter looks at the progress that has been made since that initial report and also gives an in-depth description of the gaps that are still present. How would you grade patient safety progress over the past ten years? In this article, Wachter looks at ten domains of patient safety and assigns a grade representing progress, or lack of progress in the area. See Box 1. Wachter's overall grade for progress is a Be, better than the C1 he gave it in 2004. 2 You can read Dr. Wachter's article for details, but there were a few important points I want to discuss.
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