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Foreword: Preventing Medical Accidents: Is “Systems Analysis” The Answer?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2021

Lucian L. Leape
Lucian L. Leape*
Affiliation:
MD, Harvard Medical School, 1959. Harvard School of Public Health, National Patient Safety Foundation and Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 27 , Issue 2-3: Perspectives on Medical Error: Reactions to the IOM Report , 2001 , pp. 145 - 148
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 2020

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1 Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System (Linda T. Kohn, et al. eds., 2000).

2 See, e.g., James Reason, Human Error (1990); Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies (1984).

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