{"product_id":"health-care-errors-and-patient-safety-isbn-9781405146432","title":"Health Care Errors and Patient Safety","description":"The detection, reporting, measurement, and minimization of medical errors and harms is now a core requirement in clinical organizations throughout developed societies. This book focuses on this major new area in health care. It explores the nature of medical error, its incidence in different health care settings, and strategies for minimizing errors and their harmful consequences to patients. Written by leading authorities, it discusses the practical issues involved in reducing errors in health care - for the clinician, the health policy adviser, and ethical and legal health professionals.  \u003cb\u003eSection 1: Understanding medical errors\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e1. Historical recognition and conceptual understanding of error as an inevitable component of clinical work International overview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The patient safety implications of transitions in healthcare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Are all errors the same?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. How does the law deal with medical errors?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 2: Key clinical issues\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The epidemiology of patient safety.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Diagnostic errors: psychological theories and research implications.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The aftermath of error on patients and health care staff.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Medicines management to minimise errors in primary care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Error and organizational change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Error reporting systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Analysis of health care error reports.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 3: Learning from errors\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Errors as individual learning opportunities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. 'Mince or mice'? misunderstandings and patient safety in a linguistically diverse community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Patient safety and patient error.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Significant event auditing and root cause analysis of errors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Teaching students about medical errors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Medical education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Medical errors in narratives and case histories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 4: Communicating with the public\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The patient's role in preventing errors and promoting safety.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Health care errors and the media.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. The many advantages and some disadvantages of a no-blame culture regarding medical errors\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eBrian Hurwitz\u003c\/b\u003e, NHS GP, Professor of Medicine and the Arts, King’s College, London.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAziz Sheikh\u003c\/b\u003e, NHS GP, Professor of Primary Care Research and Development, University of Edinburgh\u003cbr\u003e The editors have worked together on medical error in the past and have a considerable track record of jointly undertaken research and peer review publication in primary health care related fields. They have established contacts with many of the proposed chapter authors.\u003c\/p\u003e  Over the past decade, a transformation in attitudes to health care error and patient safety has taken place. Recognition, classification, monitoring and prevention of errors have become visible fields of multidisciplinary debate, empirical research and policy development, whereas 5 years ago such matters were little studied or discussed.  \u003cp\u003eErrors in medicine are now of great interest to many parties – they attract the focus of lawyers, insurers and policy analysts, as well as the attention of medical educators, researchers, psychologists, professional, regulatory and defence bodies, patients and politicians. Each constituency brings different viewpoints to the issues raised by medical error, such as: error definition and reporting, error interpretation, how to identify the causes of medical error and maximise prevention, and how to reduce error associated health care harms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver the coming decade, the detection, reporting, measurement and minimisation of medical errors and the harms which flow from these will become part and parcel of every clinical organisation in developed societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAim of this book\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThis volume will bring together a series of contributions by internationally recognised researchers, scientists and critical thinkers on medical errors, in order to chart the growing public and policy interest in medical fallibility and patient safety. It will be directed to a broad audience of practitioners, policy makers and researchers, and will encompass\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe nature of medical fallibility and different approaches to defining error\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003erelations between error and harm\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ewhat is known about the incidence and epidemiology of errors and harms in different health settings and\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003estrategies to minimise the occurrence of errors and their harmful consequences\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003einteraction with the law: culpability for error, harm and bad luck\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003erelevance to clinical appraisal and re-accreditation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe culture and ethos of clinical practices\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003emedical education and research.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith an international authorship, this volume will be of interest to both domestic and international clinical, health policy, medical R+D and health education readerships. Comparable collections contain material published some time ago now and do not offer the breadth of focus on error and patient safety that we propose here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BMJ Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989350039781,"sku":"NP9781405146432","price":102.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405146432.jpg?v=1761783771","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/health-care-errors-and-patient-safety-isbn-9781405146432","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}