Health Care Errors and Patient Safety (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hurwitz, Brian; Sheikh, Aziz

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The detection, reporting, measurement, and minimization of medical errors and harms is now a core requirement in clinical organizations throughout developed societies. This book focuses on this major new area in health care. It explores the nature of medical error, its incidence in different health care settings, and strategies for minimizing errors and their harmful consequences to patients. Written by leading authorities, it discusses the practical issues involved in reducing errors in health care - for the clinician, the health policy adviser, and ethical and legal health professionals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444308167
• Artikelnr.: 37349724

Autorenporträt

Brian Hurwitz, NHS GP, Professor of Medicine and the Arts, King's College, London. Aziz Sheikh, NHS GP, Professor of Primary Care Research and Development, University of Edinburgh The editors have worked together on medical error in the past and have a considerable track record of jointly undertaken research and peer review publication in primary health care related fields. They have established contacts with many of the proposed chapter authors.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Understanding medical errors. 1. Historical recognition and
conceptual understanding of error as an inevitable component of clinical
work International overview. 2. The patient safety implications of
transitions in healthcare. 3. Are all errors the same?. 4. How does the law
deal with medical errors?. Section 2: Key clinical issues. 5. The
epidemiology of patient safety. 6. Diagnostic errors: psychological
theories and research implications. 7. The aftermath of error on patients
and health care staff. 8. Medicines management to minimise errors in
primary care. 9. Error and organizational change. 10. Error reporting
systems. 11. Analysis of health care error reports. Section 3: Learning
from errors. 12. Errors as individual learning opportunities. 13. 'Mince or
mice'? misunderstandings and patient safety in a linguistically diverse
community. 14. Patient safety and patient error. 15. Significant event
auditing and root cause analysis of errors. 16. Teaching students about
medical errors. 17. Medical education. 18. Medical errors in narratives and
case histories. Section 4: Communicating with the public. 19. The patient's
role in preventing errors and promoting safety. 20. Health care errors and
the media. 21. The many advantages and some disadvantages of a no-blame
culture regarding medical errors