Patient safety in nursing practice.
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چکیده
HEALTHCARE experts have long known about patient safety problems in the American healthcare system, but the issue has only recently moved to the center of the national healthcare agenda. Florence Nightingale warned in the late 1800s to “do the sick no harm,” but it took the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) landmark report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System1 to create momentum for the patient safety movement of today. The IOM report caused headlines worldwide when it was released, and now 5 years later, patient safety has become an increasingly important public concern. For example, in a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Harvard School of Public Health, 1 in 3 respondents reported that they or a family member had experienced a medical error at some point in their life; one fifth of all respondents said it had caused serious health consequences such
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عنوان ژورنال:
- AORN journal
دوره 86 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005