Medical errors and patient safety, strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety, Jay Kalra
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Medical errors and patient safety, strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety, Jay Kalra
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Medical errors and patient safety
Nature of contents
bibliographydictionaries
Oclc number
754713644
Responsibility statement
Jay Kalra
Series statement
Patient safety, v. 1
Sub title
strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety
Summary
This book shows with real cases from health care and beyond that most errors come from flaws in the system. It also shows why they don't get reported and how medical error disclosure around the world is shifting away from blaming people to a <FONT face=Arial size=3><FONT face=Arial size=3><FONT face=Calibri size=3><FONT face=Calibri size=3>no-fault<FONT face=Arial size=3><FONT face=Arial size=3><FONT face=Calibri size=3><FONT face=Calibri size=3> model. The book will examine issues that stymie efforts made to reduce preventable adverse events and medical errors, and will moreover highlight their impact on clinical laboratories and oth<FONT face=Calibri size=3><FONT face=Calibri size=3>er areas. It identifies possible intelligent system approaches that can be adopted to help control and eliminate these errors
Table Of Contents
An overview and introduction to concepts -- Perceptions of medical error and adverse events -- Causes of medical error and adverse events -- Medical error and strategies for working solutions in clinical diagnostic laboratories and other health care areas -- Creating a culture for medical error reduction -- Improving quality in clinical diagnostic laboratories -- Barriers to open disclosure -- International laws and guidelines addressing error and disclosure -- The value of autopsy in detecting medical error and improving quality -- Total quality management, six-sigma, and health care
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- MEDICAL + Allied Health Services + Medical Technology
- Patients -- United States -- Safety measures
- MEDICAL + Family & General Practice
- MEDICAL + Biotechnology
- Electronic books
- Patient safety
- MEDICAL + Lasers in Medicine
- Medical errors -- United States
- Electronic books
- Sicherheit
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING + Biomedical
- Safety Management
- Patient
- Medical Errors
- Medizinschaden
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- MEDICAL + Allied Health Services + Medical Technology
- Patients -- United States -- Safety measures
- MEDICAL + Family & General Practice
- MEDICAL + Biotechnology
- Electronic books
- Patient safety
- MEDICAL + Lasers in Medicine
- Medical errors -- United States
- Electronic books
- Sicherheit
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING + Biomedical
- Safety Management
- Patient
- Medical Errors
- Medizinschaden
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