Medical error as defined in Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections: Systemic and Social Causes encompasses many categories including, but not limited to, medical error, hospital-acquired infections, medication errors, deaths from misdiagnosis, deaths from infectious diarrhea in nursing homes, surgical and post-operative complic
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Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections
Systemic and Social Causes
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Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections
Systemic and Social Causes
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editor
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Do No Harm : A Social Science Approach to Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections—A Systemic Approach to the Epidemic
- Chapter 2: For-Profit Care : Its Effect on Medical Errors
- Chapter 3: Medical Errors
- Chapter 4: Nosocomial Diseases : A Discussion of Issues and Prevention
- Chapter 5: No More Preventable Deaths : Hospital-Acquired Infections in Canada and One Union’s Campaign to Stop Them
- Chapter 6: Hospital Epidemiology
- Chapter 7: Staffing and Medical Errors
- Chapter 8: Working Conditions and Patient Safety : Impacts on Medical Errors
- Chapter 9: Shift Work and Its Impact on Medical Error
- Chapter 10: Bullying and Medical Errors
- Chapter 11: The Relationship between Lateral and Horizontal Violence and Bullying : Nurses and Patient Safety
- Chapter 12: Special Populations : Medical Error and Infection
- Chapter 13: Personal Protective Equipment : Patient and Worker Safety
- Chapter 14: Legal Issues
- Chapter 15: Technology and Medical Errors
- Chapter 16: Nursing Injury Rates and Negative Patient Outcomes : Connecting the Dots
- Chapter 17: Industrial Hygiene for Health-Care Workers : Exposures Causing Injuries
- Chapter 18: Perspectives of a Frontline Nurse
- Chapter 19: Medical Error : A Personal Story
- Back Cover
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