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Closing Death’s Door: Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm.

July 7, 2021

Saks M, Landsman S. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2021. ISBN: 9780190667986.

A weave of systemic factors contributes to the persistent presence of error in medicine. This publication summarizes the development of the patient safety movement and discusses legal and policy approaches as promising avenues for generating the changes needed to reduce iatrogenic harm and sustain improvement.

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