Despite resistance from the medical establishment, he found systemic ways to reduce errors, paving the way for a global standard. Thousands of lives have been saved. By Katie Hafner Lucian L. Leape, a ...
Lucian Leape, MD, considered by many to be the father of the patient safety movement, died Monday in Lexington, Massachusetts. He was 94. The cause of death was heart failure, his son James told the ...
It is no exaggeration to say that Lucian was one of the most important figures in patient safety in the US and globally. A big part of his influence was driven by a simple desire to make things better ...
May 6, 2004 (Philadelphia) — Patient safety continues to be a low priority in most American health systems, which is why medical errors remain a significant public health problem, according to Lucien ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The vast majority of Americans are having positive experiences with the health care system, but 21 percent of adults report having personally experienced a medical ...
Lucian Leape was losing patience. Brookhaven, the senior-living facility where he is a resident, had imposed strict social-distancing rules in March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but as ...
Lucian Leape is a health policy analyst whose research has focused on patient safety and quality of care. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 1988, he was professor of Surgery and Chief of ...