Misadventures in health care
Subtitle: inside stories
By: edited by Marilyn Sue Bogner.
Contributors: Bogner, Marilyn Sue.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Medical errors.; Primary care (Medicine) -- Safety measures.; Medical care -- Quality control.; Hospital care -- Safety measures.; Diagnostic errors -- Prevention.; Medicine -- Practice -- Safety measures.
Description: This volume considers human error as a phenomenon to be understood so it can be effectively addressed, thus enhancing safety. This involves challenging the presumption that to err is human and supplanting it with a synthesis of insights conveyed by stories from the rarely considered perspective of health care providers -- those who know firsthand what can be involved in an error as well as the myriad of unsafe factors in the context in which health care is provided.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.