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Best books to learn Medical error and patient safety, in order

Patient safety became a field in 1999, when a report put a number on how many Americans die each year from preventable medical error and made it impossible to keep treating mistakes as the failures of individual bad doctors.

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How should I approach learning medical error and patient safety?
Patient safety became a field in 1999, when a report put a number on how many Americans die each year from preventable medical error and made it impossible to keep treating mistakes as the failures of individual bad doctors.
What's a good book to start medical error and patient safety with?
A strong starting point is Understanding patient safety by Robert M. Wachter. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.

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