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Healthy Aging Month is an annual observance month designed to focus national attention on the positive aspects of growing older. The main objective is to encourage local-level Healthy Aging events that promote taking personal responsibility for one’s health.
The 1999 report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System exposed the issue of patient safety in health care and was the first in a series of reports from the Institute of Medicine’s Health Care Quality Initiative to assess and improve the nation’s quality of care. A new report in that series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines inaccurate or delayed diagnoses — known as diagnostic errors — in health care and provides recommendations on how to improve diagnosis and reduce diagnostic errors.
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