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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2005 17(2):93-94; doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzi029
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International Journal for Quality in Health Care vol. 17 no. 2 © The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Society for Quality in Health Care; all rights reserved

Editorial

Beyond Babel: prospects for a universal patient safety taxonomy

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In the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, God foiled man’s attempt to build a tower reaching to the heavens.

And the Lord said, ‘Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do ... Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech’. Genesis 11: 6–7

Those familiar with the field of patient safety will recognize that confusing language does not, in fact, require divine intervention. In the space of a few years, a bewildering language of medical error and iatrogenic injury has evolved, bedeviling efforts to catalogue . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Saul N. Weingart

Center for Patient Safety, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA


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