Milos Jenicek

Medical Error and Harm (eBook, PDF)

Understanding, Prevention, and Control

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Recent debate over healthcare and its spiraling costs has brought medical error into the spotlight as an indicator of everything that is ineffective, inhumane, and wasteful about modern medicine. But while the tendency is to blame it all on human error, it is a much more complex problem that involves overburdened systems, constantly changing techno

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439836958
• Artikelnr.: 57533729

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.