5 practical steps to prevent medical errors

By Steve Wirth, Esq., EMT-P The National Institute of Medicine in its seminal 1999 report: To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System estimated that up to 98,000 people per year die in hospitals due to preventable medical errors. Unfortunately, we don't have good estimates for the number of fatal medical errors in EMS. But with the significant number of fatal medical errors that occur in ...

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