Medical errors and patient safety : strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety / / Jay Kalra.
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| Superior document: | Patient safety ; v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Patient safety ;
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| Physical Description: | viii, 113 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- An 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.