Internal bleeding
Subtitle: the truth behind America's terrifying epidemic of medical mistakes
By: Robert M. Wachter, Kaveh G. Shojania
Contributors: Shojania, Kaveh G.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Rugged Land
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York City, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9781590710166
Subjects: Erreurs médicales; Health Facility Administration; Medical care; Medical Errors; Medical errors; Congrès
Description: Two doctors and experts in the study of patient safety and hospital quality provide a close-up look at the medical errors that occur in America's overburdened, underinsured, and often unaccountable health-care system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-428) and index.
Table of contents: title: A New Epidemic; title: The System; title: The Wrong Patient; title: It's The System, Stupid; title: Jumbo Jets Crashing; title: The Errors of Our Way; title: Doctors' Handwriting and Other Prescribing Errors; title: The Forgotten Half of Medication Errors; title: Solving the Riddle; title: Of Life and Limb; title: Did We Forget Something?; title: Practice Makes Perfect; title: Handoffs and Fumbles; title: See One, Do One, Teach One; title: Hubris and Teamwork; title: The Other End of the Stethoscope; title: Consequences; title: Spilling the Beans; title: Whether Reports?; title: Malpractice; title: Accountability; title: Cures; title: Attacking a New Disease; title: What Can Policymakers Do?; title: A Culture of Safety; title: A system of Safety; title: What Can Patients Do?; title: List of the Seventeen Individual Errors in the Wrong Patient Case; title: Dangerous Abbreviations Used in Prescribing; title: Examples of Easily Confused Sound-Alike or Look-Alike Drugs.