Medical Error and Harm
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Medical Error and Harm

Understanding, Prevention, and Control

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Medical Error and Harm

Understanding, Prevention, and Control

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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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Publisher
Productivity Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781439836958
Edition
1
Topic
Commerce
Subtopic
Management

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Author’s Very Short Introduction: Minimizing Errors in Medicine
  4. Chapter 1. Putting Medical Errorin Context: Minimizing Errors in Medicine—Beyond the“Oops!” Factor
  5. Chapter 2. The Valued Legacy of Error and Harm in General: Error and Harm across General Human Experience in Nonmedical Domains—Welcome to Lathology
  6. Chapter 3. Error andHarm in Health Sciences: Defining and Classifying Human Error and Its Consequences in Clinical and Community Settings
  7. Chapter 4. Describing Medical Error and Harm: Their Occurrence and Nature in Clinical and Community Settings
  8. Chapter 5. Analyzing Medical Error and Harm: Searching for Their Causes and Consequences
  9. Chapter 6. Flaws in Operator Reasoning and Decision Making Underlying Medical Error and Harm
  10. Chapter 7. Prevention, Intervention, and Control of Medical Error and Harm: Clinical Epidemiological Considerations of Actions and Their Evaluation
  11. Chapter 8. Taking Medical Error and Harm to Court: Contributions and Expectations of Physicians in Tort Litigation and Legal Decision Making
  12. Conclusions
  13. A Brief and (Hopefully) Harmonized Glossary
  14. Appendix A: List of Cognitive Biases
  15. Appendix B: List of Fallacies
  16. Appendix C: Medical Error and Harm–Related Case Report
  17. About the Author
  18. Back cover