Medical errors and patient safety strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
c2011.
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| Series: | Patient safety ;
v. 1. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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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
- The value of autopsy in detecting medical error and improving quality
- Total quality management, six-sigma, and health care.