LEADER 04483nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910457250703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-16629-1 010 $a9786613166296 010 $a3-11-024950-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110249507 035 $a(CKB)2550000000042811 035 $a(EBL)797981 035 $a(OCoLC)754713644 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000530388 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12214273 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000530388 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10567967 035 $a(PQKB)11686534 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC797981 035 $a(DE-B1597)122495 035 $a(OCoLC)840444674 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110249507 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL797981 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10486525 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316629 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000042811 100 $a20110119d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMedical errors and patient safety$b[electronic resource] $estrategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety /$fJay Kalra 210 $aBerlin $cDe Gruyter$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (128 p.) 225 1 $aPatient safety ;$vv. 1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-218787-3 311 $a3-11-024949-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAn 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. 330 $aIs the reporting of medical errors changing? This book shows with real cases from health care and beyond that most errors come from flaws in the system. It also shows why they don't get reported and how medical error disclosure around the world is shifting away from blaming people, to a "no-fault" model that seeks to improve the whole system of care. The book intends to provide an introduction to medical errors that result in preventable adverse events. It will examine issues that stymie efforts made to reduce preventable adverse events and medical errors, and will moreover highlight their impact on clinical laboratories and other areas, including educational, bioethical, and regulatory issues. Varying error rates of 0.1-9.3% in clinical diagnostic laboratories have been reported in the literature. While it is suggested that fewer errors occur in the laboratory than in other hospital settings, the quantum of laboratory tests used in healthcare entails that even a small error rate may reflect a large number of errors. The interdependence of surgical specialties, emergency rooms, and intensive care units - all of which are prone to higher rates of medical errors - with clinical diagnostic laboratories entails that reducing error rates in laboratories is essential to ensuring patient safety in other critical areas of healthcare. The author maintains that many such errors are preventable provided that appropriate attention is paid to systemic factors involved in laboratory errors. This book identifies possible intelligent system approaches that can be adopted to help control and eliminate these errors. It is a valuable tool for physicians, clinical biochemists, research scientists, laboratory technologists and anyone interested in reducing adverse events at all levels of healthcare processes. 410 0$aPatient safety ;$vv. 1. 606 $aMedical errors$zUnited States 606 $aPatient safety 606 $aPatients$xSafety measures$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMedical errors 615 0$aPatient safety. 615 0$aPatients$xSafety measures 676 $a610.28/9 686 $aXL 1503$2rvk 700 $aKalra$b Jay$0989394 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457250703321 996 $aMedical errors and patient safety$92462243 997 $aUNINA