RT Book, Section A1 Suyderhoud, Johan P. A2 Freeman, Brian S. A2 Berger, Jeffrey S. SR Print(0) ID 1102570496 T1 Patient Safety T2 Anesthesiology Core Review: Part One Basic Exam YR 2014 FD 2014 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071821377 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1102570496 RD 2024/10/15 AB The concept of providing a safe clinical environment centered on the patient is not a new concept in the field of anesthesiology. In fact, the profession was the first medical specialty to both identify and embrace the concept of patient safety as a central tenant of its clinical and research mission. The terms “patient safety,” “patient safety movement,” and “no patient shall be harmed” all came from the founding moments that led, in 1985, to the establishment of the first specialty-specific organization dedicated to patient safety, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF). This organization has been the model on which all subsequent efforts to improve patient safety throughout organized medicine have been based, including the establishment of the National Patient Safety Foundation in 1997. Anesthesiology’s proximal role in patient safety was lauded by the Institute of Medicine’s Quality of Care in America Committee, which published To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System in 1999, which singled out the work the specialty had performed, demonstrating a commitment to patient safety as the model for all other specialties to emulate. Today, patient safety is arguably the strongest driving force in medicine besides cost, and serves as the preeminent metric by which we measure clinical outcomes.