Temporal trends in rates of patient harm resulting from medical care.

By C. Landrigan, G. Parry, Catherine B Bones, Andrew Hackbarth, D. Goldmann, P. Sharek. New England Journal of Medicine, 2010

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A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care (2013, background): “In a fourth recent study targeting changes in patient safety in 10 hospitals in North Carolina, there was a lower incidence of deaths associated with adverse events.(24) Hospitals in North Carolina were chosen because hospitals in that state had shown a ‘‘high level of engagement in efforts to impro”
Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors (2018, neutral): “Serious nonfatal medical errors occur at 10- to 20-fold higher rates than fatal errors(5) and continue to remain prevalent despite widespread quality improvement efforts.(3,6,7) Burnout and poor well-being have been recognized as common occupational hazards among health care professionals.”
Organizational errors: Directions for future research (2011, background): “…ranga@owen.vanderbilt.edu John S. Carroll MIT Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: jcarroll@mit.edu Amy C. Edmondson Harvard Business School Harvard University Email: aedmondson@hbs.edu David A. Hofmann Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North…”
Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care (2012, background): “These adverse events occur in hospitalized patients even in regions where there has been a heavy programmatic focus on improving patient safety in hospitals (Landrigan et al., 2010).”