Walking the Talk to Ensure Patient Safety on Medical News Corporate

"It has been 10 years since the Institute of Medicine released its damning report, To Err is Human, but it has been 24 centuries since Hippocrates admonished physicians to do no harm," said Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, president emeritus of The Joint Commission and a founding member of the Lucian Leape Institute. "Today, although some progress in improving patient safety continues to be made, healthcare remains fundamentally unsafe as up to one in 10 people admitted to hospitals continue to experience significant, preventable adverse events."