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Author |
: Marilynn M. Rosenthal |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076001961569 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medical Mishaps by : Marilynn M. Rosenthal
Medical Mishaps explores what is known about the incidence, causes and aftermath of medical errors. Mishaps are traced from their genesis through to their impact on doctors, patients, managers and those responsible for complaint resolution.
Author |
: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 473 |
Release |
: 2015-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309377720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309377722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Improving Diagnosis in Health Care by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
Author |
: Kerm Henriksen |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 526 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:70548902 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Advances in Patient Safety by : Kerm Henriksen
v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.
Author |
: Danielle Ofri, MD |
Publisher |
: Beacon Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2020-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807037881 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807037885 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis When We Do Harm by : Danielle Ofri, MD
Medical mistakes are more pervasive than we think. How can we improve outcomes? An acclaimed MD’s rich stories and research explore patient safety. Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it’s a profound and painful breach. Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there’s no doubt that treatment can also cause harm, a significant portion of which is preventable. In When We Do Harm, practicing physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri places the issues of medical error and patient safety front and center in our national healthcare conversation. Drawing on current research, professional experience, and extensive interviews with nurses, physicians, administrators, researchers, patients, and families, Dr. Ofri explores the diagnostic, systemic, and cognitive causes of medical error. She advocates for strategic use of concrete safety interventions such as checklists and improvements to the electronic medical record, but focuses on the full-scale cultural and cognitive shifts required to make a meaningful dent in medical error. Woven throughout the book are the powerfully human stories that Dr. Ofri is renowned for. The errors she dissects range from the hardly noticeable missteps to the harrowing medical cataclysms. While our healthcare system is—and always will be—imperfect, Dr. Ofri argues that it is possible to minimize preventable harms, and that this should be the galvanizing issue of current medical discourse.
Author |
: Institute of Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2000-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309068376 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309068371 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Err Is Human by : Institute of Medicine
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Author |
: Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan |
Publisher |
: Capstone Press |
Total Pages |
: 49 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781543592139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1543592139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medical Mishaps by : Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan
See some of the world's most messed-up medical mishaps at a microscopic level. Find out how each procedure, tool, or surgery failed, the basic science that was missed, and what doctors learned from their mistakes.
Author |
: Richard Gordon |
Publisher |
: House of Stratus |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2014-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780755147083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0755147081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Great Medical Disasters by : Richard Gordon
Man's activities have been tainted by disaster ever since the serpent first approached Eve in the garden. And the world of medicine is no exception. In this outrageous and strangely informative book, Richard Gordon explores some of history's more bizarre medical disasters.
Author |
: Ronda Hughes |
Publisher |
: Department of Health and Human Services |
Total Pages |
: 592 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: IOWA:31858055672798 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Patient Safety and Quality by : Ronda Hughes
"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Author |
: Robert Wears |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2019-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190271268 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190271264 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Still Not Safe by : Robert Wears
The term "patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community -- in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities -- sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US attributed to medical errors each year. But what was causing these medical errors? And what made these accidents to rise to epidemic levels, seemingly overnight? Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient-safety movement -- and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization. Physician Robert Wears and organizational theorist Kathleen Sutcliffe trace the origins of patient safety to the emergence of market trends that challenged the place of doctors in the larger medical ecosystem: the rise in medical litigation and physicians' aversion to risk; institutional changes in the organization and control of healthcare; and a bureaucratic movement to "rationalize" medical practice -- to make a hospital run like a factory. If these social factors challenged the place of practitioners, then the patient-safety movement provided a means for readjustment. In spite of relatively constant rates of medical errors in the preceding decades, the "epidemic" was announced in 1999 with the publication of the Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human; the reforms that followed came to be dominated by the very professions it set out to reform. Weaving together narratives from medicine, psychology, philosophy, and human performance, Still Not Safe offers a counterpoint to the presiding, doctor-centric narrative of contemporary American medicine. It is certain to raise difficult, important questions around the state of our healthcare system -- and provide an opening note for other challenging conversations.
Author |
: Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 49 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781543592177 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1543592171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medical Mishaps by : Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan
See some of the world's most messed-up medical mishaps at a microscopic level. Find out how each procedure, tool, or surgery failed, the basic science that was missed, and what doctors learned from their mistakes.