Information from to Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health

question 8

Multiple Choice

Information from To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System (Institute of Medicine, 1999) indicates that at least 44,000 Americans die each year as a result of a medication error. Nurses from which setting could closely apply this information to their personal practice?

• A) Hospitals
• B) Long-term care
• C) Home health
• D) Intensive care units
• E) Ambulatory care

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