Human Error in Medicine

This edited collection of articles addresses aspects of medical care in which human error is associated with unanticipated adverse outcomes. For the purposes of this book, human error encompasses mismanagement of medical care due to: * inadequacies or ambiguity in the design of a medical device or i...

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Main Author Bogner, Marilyn Sue
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Hillsdale, N.J CRC Press 1994
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
SeriesHuman Error and Safety
Subjects
Medical errors
Therapeutic Mishaps
Preloaded Syringe
Anesthetic Nurse
Medical Care Providers
Human Machine System
Negligent Adverse Events
Health Care Providers
Preventable AEs
Harvard Medical Practice Study
Nuclear Medicine
Nonstandard Work Schedules
Preoperative Evaluation
Large System Failures
User Error
Sleep Loss
Positive Mammogram
Nuclear Medicine Procedures
Cardio Thoracic Surgery
Aviation Safety Reporting System
Federal Aviation Administration
Medical Care Settings
Clinical Examination
Human Error
Computerized Diagnostic Aiding
Wrong Syringe
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ISBN9780805813869
9780805813852
0805813853
0805813861
DOI10.1201/9780203751725

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Preventability of Medical Injury -- 3 Life-Threatening and Fatal Therapeutic Misadventures Joshua A . Perper -- 4 Human Errors: Their Causes and Reduction -- 5 Error Reduction as a Systems Problem -- 6 Misinterpreting Cognitive Decline in the Elderly: Blaming the Patient -- 7 Using Statistics in Clinical Practice: A Gap Between Training and Application -- 8 People Versus Computers in Medicine -- 9 Medical Devices, Medical Errors, and Medical Accidents -- 10 Radiopharmaceutical Misadministrations: What's Wrong? -- 11 Human Error in Dynamic Medical Domains -- 12 Team Performance in the Operating Room -- 13 Operating at the Sharp End: The Complexity of Human Error -- 14 Fatigue, Performance, and Medical Error -- 15 Errors in the Use of Medical Equipment -- 16 Diagnosis-Related Groups: Are Patients in Jeopardy? Margaret H. Applegate Human Error in Medicine: A Frontier for Change -- 17 Human Error in Medicine: A Frontier for Change -- 18 Afterword -- Author Index -- Subject Index