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The Institute of Medicine report, To Err Is Human, which led the news in late 1999 with a charge that “medical errors” were killing 44,000 to 120,000 Americans each year, gave patient safety “celebrity status.” But the emergence of patient safety as a major concern on the public agenda was not a given. In this chapter, the authors raise questions about why it developed at this time even though the problem of medical harm had long been known, why it was understood as “error” as opposed to “risk” or “hazard,” and, finally, who gained control of the reform effort and to what end. |
