Question

What influence and impact has the "To Err is Human" report had on the U.S healthcare system, medical education, public health, and government programs

Answer 1

Ans) To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System is a report issued in November 1999 by the U.S. Institute of Medicine that may have resulted in increased awareness of U.S. medical errors.

- The report called for a comprehensive effort by health care providers, government, consumers, and others.

- The report "brought the issues of medical error and patient safety to the forefront of national concern".

- The report has been called "groundbreaking" for suggesting that 2-4% of all deaths in the United States are caused by medical errors.

The report is credited with raising awareness of the extent to which medical error was a problem. The report described that errors were not rare or isolated, and only by broad planning could they be diminished. It also described that most errors are systemic in the health care industry, and cannot be resolved at the level of individual health care providers.