{"product_id":"to-err-is-human-building-a-safer-health-system-9780309261746","title":"To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System","description":"\u003cp\u003eExperts estimate that as many as 98 000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. Thats more than die from motor vehicle accidents  breast cancer  or AIDSthree causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed  more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy  and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent  widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequencebut not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all  to err is human. Instead  this book sets forth a national agendawith state and local implicationsfor reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it  given many patients expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation  regulation  and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study  the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorswhich begs the question  \"How can we learn from our mistakes?\" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts  the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety  in the areas of leadership  improved data collection and analysis  and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careit is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward  this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal  state  and local health policy makers and regulators  health professional licensing officials  hospital administrators  medical educators and students  health caregivers  health journalists  patient advocatesas well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America  a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646949744693,"sku":"ByrdShop_0309261740","price":46.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780309261746.jpg?v=1781682995","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/to-err-is-human-building-a-safer-health-system-9780309261746","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}