Six Sigma Healthcare Context ...

Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, 107-16, Social Security and Medicare Trustees' 2001 Annual Reports

... "To maybe deepen the notion with a few facts that you are talking about, I suppose most of you know about the concept called Six Sigma. What it means, in a million events, a million repetitive events, that there will be 3.4 mistakes in a million events. And to put it in context where we are in medical care, if you look at medications in the United States, one in every 2,000 medications is wrong. Think about that in the context of Six Sigma." ...