Medical Error and Harm: Understanding, Prevention, and Control
Autor Milos Jeniceken Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 iul 2010
Medical Error and Harm: Understanding, Prevention and Control, presents the work of long time physician and teacher Milos Jenicek, a pioneering expert on epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and critical thinking and decision making in the health sciences. Providing an extraordinarily comprehensive overview of the subject that is as thorough and scientifically organized as it is accessible and free of rhetoric, Dr. Jenicek —
- Presents a short history of error in general across various domains of human activity and endeavor, including concepts, methodologies of study, and management applications
- Provides semantic and taxonomic classifications of challenges in medical error and harm, two distinct domains
- Explores approaches used to investigate and ameliorate challenges in medicine and other health sciences
- Explains why, when, and how studies and decisions regarding errors should be carried out, such as whether risk assessment should be undertaken in the diagnosis, treatment, or prognosis stage
- Covers essential strategies for mitigating errors in the broader framework of medical care, specifically in community medicine and public health
- Considers the ever-growing role of physicians in tort law and litigation
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439836941
ISBN-10: 1439836949
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 21 b/w images, 16 tables and PPI 814
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Productivity Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1439836949
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 21 b/w images, 16 tables and PPI 814
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Productivity Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
Putting medical error and harm in context. Reducing errors and harm in medicine; beyond the ‘oops!’ factor. The valued legacy. Error and harm across general human experience in the non-medical domains. Welcome to lathology. Error and harm in the health sciences. Defining and classifying human error and its consequences in clinical and community settings. Describing medical error and harm. Their occurrence and nature in clinical and community settings. Analyzing medical error and harm. Search for their causes and consequences. Flaws in operator’s reasoning and decision making before action. Prevention, intervention and control of medical error and harm. Clinical epidemiological considerations of actions and their evaluation. Taking medical error and harm to court. Contributions of physicians and expectations of physicians in tort litigation and legal decision-making. Conclusions. A Brief and (hopefully) Harmonized Glossary. Appendices.
Recenzii
… authored by a well-known physician and professor at the DeGroote School of Medicine in Ontario, Canada. Dr Jenicek begins with a review of human errors in general and then continues with a review of medical errors and the negative outcomes that follow … . The author reviews the history of medical errors and definitions by using an epidemiologic approach. He starts with a review of errors that cause traffic accidents and industrial injuries. … He also explores possible causes of medical errors, including human error or lapses in judgment and the rapid technologic growth currently observed in medicine, especially in the subspecialty areas. The author also presents numerous frameworks that can be used to identify the medical error type, possible causes, and various solutions. … Finally, he discusses medical-legal consequences of errors and how tort law has evolved over time.
—Shauna Ely Tarrac MSN, RN, CIC, CNOR, in the AORN Journal, April 2011
Jenicek makes a valiant effort to impose some order on the diverse nomenclature of lathology and delves into the difficult task of taxonomy of this subject.
—John P. A. Ioannidis, in The Lancet
—Shauna Ely Tarrac MSN, RN, CIC, CNOR, in the AORN Journal, April 2011
Jenicek makes a valiant effort to impose some order on the diverse nomenclature of lathology and delves into the difficult task of taxonomy of this subject.
—John P. A. Ioannidis, in The Lancet
Descriere
This book presents the work of long-time physician and teacher Milos Jenicek, a pioneering expert on epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and critical thinking and decision making in the health sciences. Providing a comprehensive overview of the subject that is scientifically organized and free of rhetoric, it presents the history of error across various domains of human activity. The book covers essential strategies for mitigating errors in the broader framework of medical care and provides an analysis of the contributions of physicians in tort litigation.