Bibliograph

Internal bleeding, the truth behind America's terrifying epidemic of medical mistakes, Robert M. Wachter, Kaveh G. Shojania

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Internal bleeding, the truth behind America's terrifying epidemic of medical mistakes, Robert M. Wachter, Kaveh G. Shojania

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-428) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Internal bleeding

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

54096046

Responsibility statement

Robert M. Wachter, Kaveh G. Shojania

Sub title

the truth behind America's terrifying epidemic of medical mistakes

Summary

Two doctors and experts in the study of patient safety and hospital quality provide a close-up look at the medical errors that occur in America's overburdened, underinsured, and often unaccountable health-care system

Table Of Contents

A New Epidemic -- The System -- The Wrong Patient -- It's The System, Stupid -- Jumbo Jets Crashing -- The Errors of Our Way -- Doctors' Handwriting and Other Prescribing Errors -- The Forgotten Half of Medication Errors -- Solving the Riddle -- Of Life and Limb -- Did We Forget Something? -- Practice Makes Perfect -- Handoffs and Fumbles -- See One, Do One, Teach One -- Hubris and Teamwork -- The Other End of the Stethoscope -- Consequences -- Spilling the Beans -- Whether Reports? -- Malpractice -- Accountability -- Cures -- Attacking a New Disease -- What Can Policymakers Do? -- A Culture of Safety -- A system of Safety -- What Can Patients Do? -- List of the Seventeen Individual Errors in the Wrong Patient Case -- Dangerous Abbreviations Used in Prescribing -- Examples of Easily Confused Sound-Alike or Look-Alike Drugs

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