The 1999 US Institute of Medicine Report 'To Err is Human' stimulated immediate headlines and global dialogue about the nature of medical error and the dilemma of how to improve patient safety (Institute of Medicine, 1999). The world quickly grasped the significance of the estimate that between 44 000 and 98 000 people per year die because of medical error in the USA. Page 1 of the report characterized the urgency of the issue in unforgettable terms:'Even when using the lower estimate, deaths due to medical errors exceed the number attributable to the 8th leading cause of death. More people die in a given year as a result of medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).' (US Institute of Medicine, 1999).
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机译：1999年美国医学研究所的报告“ To Err is Human”激起了有关医学错误的性质以及如何提高患者安全性的两难困境的头条新闻和全球性对话（Institute of Medicine，1999）。全世界很快就意识到了估计的重要性，因为在美国，每年有4.4万人至9.8万人死于医疗错误。该报告的第1页以令人难忘的方式描述了该问题的紧迫性：“即使使用较低的估算，由于医疗错误而导致的死亡人数也超过了导致第八大死亡原因的人数。在特定年份，由于医疗错误而死亡的人数要多于机动车事故（43,458），乳腺癌（42,297）或艾滋病（16,516）。 （美国医学研究所，1999）。
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