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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(9):668-669; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.9.668
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 9, 668-669, May 2, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

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IOM Report Calls for Improvements in Health Care System

Tom Reynolds

"Health care today harms too frequently and routinely fails to deliver its potential benefits," a March Institute of Medicine report charged.

When a 1999 IOM report estimated that up to 98,000 U.S. deaths per year are caused by medical error—which experts say is probably a gross underestimate—a public outcry followed. Many expected that IOM’s next report would prescribe specific and detailed recommendations for improving patient safety, IOM president Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., said at a March colloquium in Boston.



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