Magnet Momentum: Creating a Culture of Safety

Abstract

The past decade in health care has seen a remarkable focus and emphasis on improving quality outcomes, especially related to a culture of safe patient care. The risks to hospital patients are great, and the call to action for caregivers was sounded over a decade ago. The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 2000 report, 1 Kohn LT Corrigan JM Donaldson MS Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. National Academies Press, Washington, DC2000 Google Scholar “To Err is Human,” shocked the nation with its claim of 98,000 lives lost each year from medical error. The past decade in health care has seen a remarkable focus and emphasis on improving quality outcomes, especially related to a culture of safe patient care. The risks to hospital patients are great, and the call to action for caregivers was sounded over a decade ago. The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 2000 report, 1 Kohn LT Corrigan JM Donaldson MS Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. National Academies Press, Washington, DC2000 Google Scholar “To Err is Human,” shocked the nation with its claim of 98,000 lives lost each year from medical error.