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The pandemic s enduring, positive impact on patient safety Business priorities are now finally taking a back seat to this greater concern.
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A few months before COVID-19 turned our country upside down, the health care industry celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine s landmark report To Err is Human. The report which noted that medical errors cause between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths every year increased awareness regarding the rate of preventable errors and commenced a nationwide push to prevent them.
In an article commemorating the anniversary, Dr. Mark Chassin, president and CEO of the Joint Commission, which accredits U.S. hospitals and sets rigorous safety standards, wrote, It s been 20 years, and we haven t moved the quality and safety needle as much as we had hoped.