Consult a brief report, from February 28, 1998, about the national increase in medication errors and fatalities caused by these mistakes.

Read the news report about the report from the Institute of Medicine on patient deaths due to medical errors.

Read about a study that suggests that thousands of deaths are caused annually by hospital nurses because of understaffing and poor training.

Consult an article, from July 5, 2000, about the medical community's response to the Institute of Medicine's report on medical errors.

Consult an article, from April 14, 1998, about a study indicating that adverse drug reactions kill an estimated 100,000 people a year.

Consult an article, from Labnews, about the president of the Institute of Medicine's support for medical error reporting.

Read a press release, dated September 12, 2000, about the introduction of a software package called "Root Cause Analyst."