“Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm” is a prominent 2010 television documentary and a broader patient safety movement dedicated to completely eliminating preventable medical errors in hospitals. The initiative asserts that “zero patient harm” is the only acceptable performance metric for the medical industry. Origins and Leadership
The film was produced by the Texas Medical Institute for Technology (TMIT) and led by medical research advocate Dr. Charles Denham. It is hosted and narrated by actor Dennis Quaid, who became a fierce patient safety advocate after his newborn twins nearly died from a massive, 1,000-times accidental overdose of the blood thinner heparin at a hospital. Core Philosophy: Bad Systems, Not Bad People
The movement shifts the focus of medical errors away from individual blame and toward fixing fragmented healthcare systems. Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm
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