Medicine & Health · Medical Ethics & Law
A topic within Medical Ethics & Law, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Medicine & Health.
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Institute of Medicine
Argues that most medical errors come from flawed systems rather than negligent individuals, and that redesigning how care is delivered, not punishing whoever delivered it, is what will make hospitals safer.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Troyen A. Brennan et al.
Reviewing thousands of hospital records, finds that adverse events affected nearly four percent of admissions and that a quarter of those were caused by negligence, giving the first population estimate of harm from medical care itself.
link checked 17 Sept 2026