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According to WHO, in developed countries worldwide, what is the approximate likelihood that a hospitalized patient will be the victim of some type of medical error? 10% According to WHO, in developed countries up to 10 percent of hospital patients may be harmed while receiving care. Since the publication of To Err is Human in 1999, the health care industry overall has seen which of the following improvements? Wider awareness that preventable errors are a problem More than a decade after the publication of To Err Is Human, there is now wide recognition throughout health care that the number of errors is way too high. Although this awareness has not yet led to consistently lower rates of preventable medical error, progress is being made. Health care organizations have begun to realize and accept that most errors cannot be linked to the performance of individuals, but rather to the systems in which they function.