Still Not Safe

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Still Not Safe is written by Robert Wears and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190271280 (ISBN 10) and 9780190271282 (ISBN 13).

The term "patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community -- in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities -- sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US attributed to medical errors each year. But what was causing these medical errors? And what made these accidents to rise to epidemic levels, seemingly overnight? Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient-safety movement -- and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization.