The U.S. has three different reporting systems to track maternal mortality — and their results frequently don’t agree.
Patient Safety
Health Beat Leader
Mary Chris Jaklevic
November 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of “To Err is Human,” the National Academy of Medicine’s 1999 report that estimated as many as 98,000 people die a year in United States hospitals.
That widely publicized report called for a national agenda to improve patient care processes to make it easier for honest providers to safely treat patients and harder for them to cause harm. So where are we now? There’s been a lot of attention to the topic over the past two decades.
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