美国每年大约有4.4万—9.8万人死于医疗差错,造成的经济损失在17亿-29亿美元。他们认为,这是医疗工业缺乏系统思考(systemsthinking),降低了行业的安全性。此后医院各方面的改进包括从洗手到建立一个强制性安全监管组织已经挽救了大约12.23万人的生命。医院设计系统性思考对于日益增长的中国医院建设同样迫切重要。 About 44,000 to 98,000 people in the United States die from medical errors every year, resulting in economic losses of $1.7 billion to $2.9 billion. In their view, this is a lack of systems thinking in the medical industry, which reduces the safety of the industry. Improvements in all aspects of the hospital since then, from handwashing to the establishment of a mandatory safety oversight organization, have saved approximately 122.3 thousand lives. Systematic thinking on hospital design is equally urgent for the growing Chinese hospital construction.