Paths to Reducing Medical Injury: Professional Liability and Discipline vs. Patient Safety — And the Need for a Third Way

@article{Bovbjerg2001PathsTR,
  title={Paths to Reducing Medical Injury: Professional Liability and Discipline vs. Patient Safety — And the Need for a Third Way},
  author={Randall R. Bovbjerg and Robert H. Miller and David W. Shapiro},
  journal={The Journal of Law, Medicine \& Ethics},
  year={2001},
  volume={29},
  pages={369 - 380},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:37304421}
}
The problem of medical injury is finally receiving high-level policy attention, and the Institute of Medicine's landmark report of November 1999, which marshaled the evidence and highlighted new approaches to systematic improvement of safety within systems of care is highlighted.
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