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To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (2000)
Institute of Medicine (IOM)

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. "D Characteristics of State Adverse Event Reporting Systems." To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000.

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Each incident report is analyzed to assess whether the facility did everything possible to avert the incident. If it did not, the facility will be cited and then they must develop a plan of correction.

SOURCE: Information for this table was collected from each state health department by telephone between February 24 and May 5, 1999. Each respondent was given the opportunity to review the draft and correct any errors.

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