Milos Jenicek

Medical Error and Harm

Understanding, Prevention, and Control

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the work of long-time physician and teacher Milos Jenicek, a pioneering expert on epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and critical thinking and decision making in the health sciences. Providing a comprehensive overview of the subject that is scientifically organized and free of rhetoric, it presents the history of error across various domains of human activity. The book covers essential strategies for mitigating errors in the broader framework of medical care and provides an analysis of the contributions of physicians in tort litigation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Productivity Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781439836941
• ISBN-10: 1439836949
• Artikelnr.: 29949402

Autorenporträt

Milos Jenicek

Inhaltsangabe

Putting medical error and harm in context. Reducing errors and harm in
medicine; beyond the 'oops!' factor. The valued legacy. Error and harm
across general human experience in the non-medical domains. Welcome to
lathology. Error and harm in the health sciences. Defining and classifying
human error and its consequences in clinical and community settings.
Describing medical error and harm. Their occurrence and nature in clinical
and community settings. Analyzing medical error and harm. Search for their
causes and consequences. Flaws in operator's reasoning and decision making
before action. Prevention, intervention and control of medical error and
harm. Clinical epidemiological considerations of actions and their
evaluation. Taking medical error and harm to court. Contributions of
physicians and expectations of physicians in tort litigation and legal
decision-making. Conclusions. A Brief and (hopefully) Harmonized Glossary.
Appendices.