| Description |
xv, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / James T. Reason -- 1. Introduction / Marilyn Sue Bogner -- 2. The Preventability of Medical Injury / Lucian L. Leape -- 3. Life-Threatening and Fatal Therapeutic Misadventures / Joshua A. Perper -- 4. Human Errors: Their Causes and Reduction / Harold Van Cott -- 5. Error Reduction as a Systems Problem / Neville Moray -- 6. Misinterpreting Cognitive Decline in the Elderly: Blaming the Patient / Georgine Vroman, Ilene Cohen and Nancy Volkman -- 7. Using Statistics in Clinical Practice: A Gap Between Training and Application / Roberta L. Klatzky, James Geiwitz and Susan C. Fischer -- 8. People Versus Computers in Medicine / Thomas B. Sheridan and James M. Thompson -- 9. Medical Devices, Medical Errors, and Medical Accidents / John W. Senders -- 10. Radiopharmaceutical Misadministrations: What's Wrong? / Dennis I. Serig -- 11. Human Error in Dynamic Medical Domains / David M. Gaba |
|
12. Team Performance in the Operating Room / Robert L. Helmreich and Hans-Gerhard Schaefer -- 13. Operating at the Sharp End: The Complexity of Human Error / Richard I. Cook and David D. Woods -- 14. Fatigue, Performance, and Medical Error / Gerald P. Krueger -- 15. Errors in the Use of Medical Equipment / William A. Hyman -- 16. Diagnosis-Related Groups: Are Patients in Jeopardy? / Margaret H. Applegate -- 17. Human Error in Medicine: A Frontier for Change / Marilyn Sue Bogner -- 18. Afterword / Jens Rasmussen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Medical errors.
|
|
Diagnostic Errors.
|
|
Clinical Competence.
|
| Author |
Bogner, Marilyn Sue.
|
| LC no. |
94002007 |
| ISBN |
0805813853 acid-free paper |
|
0805813861 paperback acid-free paper |
|
