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| This 1999 study by the Institute of Medicine broke the taboo on systematic study of medical error |
"Efforts to make hospitals safer for patients are falling short, researchers report in the first large study in a decade to analyze harm from medical care and to track it over time.
The study, conducted from 2002 to 2007 in 10 North Carolina hospitals, found that harm to patients was common and that number of incidents did not decrease over time. The most common problems were complications from procedures or drugs and hospital-acquired infections."
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