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Changing the culture in medical education to teach patient safety.
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PMID:  20820014     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
In 1999 a seminal Institute of Medicine report estimated that preventable medical errors accounted for 44,000-98,000 patient deaths annually in U.S. hospitals. In response to this problem, the nation's medical schools, teaching hospitals, and health systems recognized that achieving greater patient safety requires more than a brief course in an already crowded medical school curriculum. It requires a fundamental culture change across all phases of medical education. This includes graduate medical education, which is already teaching the next generation of physicians to approach patient safety in a new way. In this paper the authors explore five factors critical to transforming the culture for patient safety and reflect on one real-world example at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Authors:
Darrell G Kirch; Philip G Boysen
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Health affairs (Project Hope)     Volume:  29     ISSN:  1544-5208     ISO Abbreviation:  Health Aff (Millwood)     Publication Date:  2010 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-09-07     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8303128     Medline TA:  Health Aff (Millwood)     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1600-4     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, USA.
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