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Medical Errors in the Hospital
“To Err is Human”- Institute of
• 1.5 million estimated annual
preventable hospital errors
Medicine-1999
• An estimated 98,000 patients die
from medical errors.
• > MVA’s, breast cancer, or AIDS.
• IOM suggested that hospital
errors should be reduced by 50%
over 5 years.