IHI proposes six patient safety goals to prevent 100,000 annual deaths.

In an attempt to avoid 100,000 deaths a year in American hospitals, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) proposed six new "changes of care" last month that have been "proven in both scientific literature and in experiences of at least some hospitals or hospital systems in the United States and abroad" to be effective in reducing mortality, according to IHI President Don Berwick.