Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care; Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform

doi:10.1056/NEJM200507213530323

Volume 353:322-324		July 21, 2005		Number 3

Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care
Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform

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Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care
(Quality Chasm Series.) Edited by Philip Aspden, Janet M. Corrigan, Julie Wolcott, and Shari M. Erickson. 528 pp. Washington, D.C., National Academies Press, 2004. $44.95. ISBN 0-309-09077-6.

Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform
(Hastings Center Studies in Ethics.) Edited by Virginia A. Sharpe. 276 pp. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, 2004. $49.95. ISBN 1-58901-023-X.

The belief that systems, more than individuals, are responsiblefor medical errors permeates current efforts to improve thequality of medical care and patient safety. Error reductionthus requires that systems be reformed, which necessitates farmore information than is currently available. Patient Safety:Achieving a New Standard for Care articulates a vision of "anew health care delivery system . . . that both prevents errorsand learns from them when they occur," to be achieved througha national infrastructure of health information. The technicalcomplexity alone that would be required . . . [Full Text of this Article]