To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System

By W. R. Hendee. 2001

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A Survey on Cleaning Dirty Data Using Machine Learning Paradigm for Big Data Analytics (2018, background): “In 1999 an institute of Medicine reported [17] approximations, for instance, at least 44,000 to 98,000 people lost their lives each year for medical errors in hospitals only and which caused more $17 to $29 billion annually in healthcare costs.”
Overview of Clinical Decision Support Systems (2016, background): “Other systems can provide support for medication orders, a major cause of medical errors.(1,17) The input for the system might be the patient’s laboratory test results for the blood level of a prescribed medication.”
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care (2015, positive): “The first report was a call to action: The committee concluded that the care patients receive is not as safe as it should be (IOM, 2000).”
Business process analysis in healthcare environments: A methodology based on process mining (2012, background): “These can severely compromise patient safety and even cost lives [6].”
Errors in a stat laboratory: types and frequencies 10 years later. (2007, background): “© 2007 American Association for Clinical Chemistry The Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (1) and other reports (2–5) have increased concern over the negative impact of medical errors on public health and patient care.”