Medical errors and patient safety : strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Book |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Berlin :
De Gruyter,
c2011
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| Series | Patient safety
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| Subjects | |
| ISBN | 9783110249491 |
| Physical Description | viii, 113 s. : il. ; 24 cm |
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Table of Contents:
- An overview and introduction to concepts
- Perceptions of medical error and adverse events
- Causes of medical error and adverse events
- Medical error and strategies for working solutions in clinical diagnostic laboratories and other health care areas
- Creating a culture for medical error reduction
- Improving quality in clinical diagnostic laboratories
- Barriers to open disclosure
- International laws and guidelines addressing error and disclosure
- Tthe value of autopsy in detecting medical error and improving quality
- Total quality management, six-sigma, and health care