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Lucian Leape on the Causes and Prevention of Errors and Adverse Events in Health Care
Author(s) -
Buerhaus Peter I.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1999.tb00499.x
Subject(s) - health care , public health , public health care , medicine , psychology , health policy , political science , nursing , law
In December 1998, I interviewed Lucian L. Leape, MD, a health policy analyst at the Harvard School of Public Health whose research has been focused on identifying and preventing errors in health care. As one of the major contributors to the application of scientific methods to identify and analyze errors, few are better suited to offer insights on a topic that is beginning to have a profound effect on improving health care.