Tag Robert N. Holdefer

44.1 Introduction: airliners and operating rooms After the Institute of Medicine reported up to 98,000 annual deaths in the United States from medical errors, a new focus on error causation and its possible amelioration began . As many as two-thirds…

43.1 Introduction Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been described as a search for a science of clinical care . Many of its core concepts and methods in use today can be traced to the field of epidemiology and the pioneering efforts…