The official beginnings of a formalized DoD Patient Safety Program can be traced back to 1998 with the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC), created by executive order by former President Bill Clinton. The president recognized that federal health care agencies, working together toward improving the safety and quality of health care, would exert significant influence within the health care industry. Following the creation of the QuIC came the landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report “To Err is Human,” which claimed that 44,000 to 98,000 people die every year as a result of medical errors. This seminal report proved to be a tipping point for the U.S. health care system, triggering a series of events geared toward monitoring the safety and quality of health care to prevent unnecessary and untimely deaths.
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