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FDA Clears New Surgical Marker; Uses RFID to Protect Patients

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing an external surgical marker tag intended to minimize the likelihood of wrong-site, wrong-procedure and wrong-patient surgeries. The dev... Details >

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Medical Errors & Patient Safety

Following a report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimating that up to 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical errors, President Clinton directed the Quality Interagency... Details >

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Reducing Medical Errors and Improving Patient Safety: Success Stories from the Front Lines of Medicine

This report represents the stories of institutions and organizations that made a commitment to change and innovation in the field of patient safety and medical error reduction. This document focuses o... Details >

National Patient Safety Foundation