The publication, Reducing Medical Errors and Improving Patient Safety, is now available online from IHI's A.C.T. web pages . Both ethics and economics demand improvement.
Most medical errors have less to do with carelessness or neglect than with failures of systems.
The way to make sure errors don't happen is not to lay blame on the people involved, but to redesign the systems that introduce hazards in the first place. Since 1990, IHI has been at the forefront of health care improvement including the reduction of medication errors and the improvement of prescribing practices . The resources in this section are designed to help your organization respond to the challenge of ensuring the safety of all patients.