Bøker av Robert (Professor of Medicine Wears

The term "patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community - in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities - sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US attributed to medical errors each year. But what was causing these medical errors? And what made these accidents to rise to epidemic levels, seemingly overnight?Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient-safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization.