Create a Safety Culture

By Sivaraman Prakasam, BDS, MSD, PhD

In 1999, the United States Institute of Medicine published a report, “To Err Is Human,” which revealed that more Americans die annually due to medical errors than traffic accidents.¹ This publication, among others, galvanized the relatively new discipline of patient safety and has resulted in various efforts to promote a climate of safety in health care professions. Many of the patient safety-related efforts have been focused on medicine, while dentistry has been a relative latecomer to the concept of a safety-based practice.²

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