We Can Do This: The Institute for Healthcare Adverse Drug

Abstract

AbstractRewind to 1995, before Annenberg and the NPSF. “Patient safety” was not on many agendas, but methods to change systems to improve quality of care were beginning to be developed. Policy-makers and the healthcare establishment were slow to respond to the new information on the extent of medical error and our calls for a new approach, but one person instantly recognized the challenge: Don Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).