IHI: Why Patient Safety Is at the Top of the List

In 2001, the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine (IOM) laid out six dimensions of quality for health care. According to the IOM, care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.

Carol Haraden, a Vice President at IHI and patient safety expert, tells us why safety is at the top of that list.

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I was harmed by many doctors because they were not thinking about me, but about themselves...and their friends at Harvard.