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Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management Donald M. Berwick was one of the 19 authors of the IOM study, which called for Congress to create a "national patient safety center" to deal with the problem...
...Berwick is not the first Harvard faculty member to study medical mistakes. Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers in 1995 found dangerous prescription errors at a Boston-area hospital, and helped design a computer system to alleviate the problem...
Finally, though University Health Services (UHS) says its patients do not usually require the kind of treatments in which errors are most common nationwide, officials say they've taken steps to ensure that medical mistakes are not a problem...
Researchers have long been aware of the magnitude of the problem presented by medical errors, he said, but the IOM study hurtled the issue into the public...
...There needs to be a longer term solution to this problem," Corlette said. "But somebody has to pay for the public good. No one has offered a solution to that. That is our challenge for the future," she added...