Medical Error and Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine

Citation

(2007), "Medical Error and Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 20 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2007.06220gae.003

Medical Error and Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine

Medical Error and Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine

George A. Peters and Barbara J. PetersCRC PressISBN 10: 1420064789

Keywords: Medical errors, Performance improvement, Healthcare management

Medical error is a serious problem in terms of patient injury, effective treatment, and healthcare costs. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, Medical Error and Patient Safety provides useful concepts and techniques that can be applied to reduce the rate of unacceptable errors, mistakes, or shortcoming expected in human performance. This book presents over 500 preventive remedies, with chapters that address such topics as medical services, medical devices, analysis, management errors, communications, and drug delivery. Various appendices detail selected standards and regulations. This text offers in-depth understanding that can lead to rapid advances in medical error management.

Contents include:

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  Presents 500 preventive remedies for medical error and patient safety.

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  Addresses medical devices, communication, management errors, and drug delivery.

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  Discusses error and causation in detail.

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  Provides guidance for research.