Lucian Leape on the Causes and Prevention of Errors and Adverse Events in Health Care

In December 1998, I interviewed Lucian L. Leape, MD, a health policy analyst at the Harvard School of Public Health whose research has been focused on identifying and preventing errors in health care. As one of the major contributors to the application of scientific methods to identify and analyze errors, few are better suited to offer insights on a topic that is beginning to have a profound effect on improving health care.