Health Care Errors and Patient Safety

The detection, reporting, measurement, and minimization of medical errors and harms is now a core requirement in clinical organizations throughout developed societies. This book focuses on this major new area in health care. It explores the nature of medical error, its incidence in different health care settings, and strategies for minimizing errors and their harmful consequences to patients. Written by leading authorities, it discusses the practical issues involved in reducing errors in health care - for the clinician, the health policy adviser, and ethical and legal health professionals.

Brian Hurwitz, NHS GP, Professor of Medicine and the Arts, King’s College, London.

Aziz Sheikh, NHS GP, Professor of Primary Care Research and Development, University of Edinburgh

The editors have worked together on medical error in the past and have a considerable track record of jointly undertaken research and peer review publication in primary health care related fields. They have established contacts with many of the proposed chapter authors.

Understanding medical errors
Historical recognition and conceptual understanding of error as an inevitable component of clinical work International overview
The patient safety implications of transitions in healthcare
Are all errors the same?
How does the law deal with medical errors?
Key clinical issues
The epidemiology of patient safety
Diagnostic errors: psychological theories and research implications
The aftermath of error on patients and health care staff
Medicines management to minimise errors in primary care
Error and organizational change
Error reporting systems
Analysis of health care error reports
Learning from errors
Errors as individual learning opportunities
'Mince or mice'? misunderstandings and patient safety in a linguistically diverse community
Patient safety and patient error
Significant event auditing and root cause analysis of errors
Teaching students about medical errors
Medical education
Medical errors in narratives and case histories
Communicating with the public
The patient's role in preventing errors and promoting safety
Health care errors and the media
The many advantages and some disadvantages of a no-blame culture regarding medical errors
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