Medical Errors and Patient Safety: Strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety

Jay Kalra

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Medical Errors and Patient Safety

Strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety

Jay Kalra

Volume 1 in the series Patient Safety

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110249507

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About this book

Is the reporting of medical errors changing? This book shows with real cases from health care and beyond that most errors come from flaws in the system. It also shows why they don't get reported and how medical error disclosure around the world is shifting away from blaming people, to a "no-fault" model that seeks to improve the whole system of care.

The book intends to provide an introduction to medical errors that result in preventable adverse events. It will examine issues that stymie efforts made to reduce preventable adverse events and medical errors, and will moreover highlight their impact on clinical laboratories and other areas, including educational, bioethical, and regulatory issues. Varying error rates of 0.1-9.3% in clinical diagnostic laboratories have been reported in the literature. While it is suggested that fewer errors occur in the laboratory than in other hospital settings, the quantum of laboratory tests used in healthcare entails that even a small error rate may reflect a large number of errors. The interdependence of surgical specialties, emergency rooms, and intensive care units - all of which are prone to higher rates of medical errors - with clinical diagnostic laboratories entails that reducing error rates in laboratories is essential to ensuring patient safety in other critical areas of healthcare.

The author maintains that many such errors are preventable provided that appropriate attention is paid to systemic factors involved in laboratory errors. This book identifies possible intelligent system approaches that can be adopted to help control and eliminate these errors. It is a valuable tool for physicians, clinical biochemists, research scientists, laboratory technologists and anyone interested in reducing adverse events at all levels of healthcare processes.

Reporting and reduction of medical errors
Real cases from health care and beyond
For physicians, clinical biochemists, research scientists, laboratory technologists

Author / Editor information

Jay Kalra, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Reviews

"Ein komprimierter Überblick über modernes Fehlermanagement."
In: Chirurgenmagazin 4/2011

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
About the author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
1 An overview and introduction to concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Perceptions of medical error and adverse events Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3 Causes of medical error and adverse events Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
4 Medical error and strategies for working solutions in clinical diagnostic laboratories and other health care areas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
5 Creating a culture for medical error reduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
6 Improving quality in clinical diagnostic laboratories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
7 Barriers to open disclosure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
8 International laws and guidelines addressing error and disclosure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
9 The value of autopsy in detecting medical error and improving quality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
10 Total quality management, six-sigma, and health care Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Physicians, Clinical Biochemists, Research Scientists, Laboratory Technologists, Laboratory and Healthcare Professionals
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 113
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Tables: 10
Keywords: Medical Malpractice; Intensive Care; Laboratory Medicine; Emergency Medicine

eBook

Published: May 26, 2011
ISBN: 9783110249507

Hardcover

Published: May 17, 2011
ISBN: 9783110249491