Medicine Books

Book Features

• Author: Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
• Language: English
• ISBN10: 0309068371
• ISBN13: 9780309068376
• Condition: New
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Book Overview

>>>Specialists estimate that as numerous as 98,000 men and women die in any offered year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That’s a lot more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS – 3 causes that receive far much more public interest. Indeed, much more folks die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the monetary cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the leading ranks of urgent, widespread public issues.”To Err Is Human” breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequence – but not by pointing fingers at caring wellness care experts who make honest blunders. Following all, to err is human. As an alternative, this book sets forth a national agenda – with state and nearby implications – for lowering medical errors and improving patient safety by way of the design of a safer wellness technique. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity in between the incidence of error and public perception of it, offered many patients’ expectations that the medical profession usually performs completely.A careful examination is produced of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care supplied by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical errors. Using a comprehensive situation study, the book critiques the present understanding of why these blunders happen. A important theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errors – which begs the question, ‘How can we discover from our errors?’Balancing regulatory versus market place-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging suggestions for improving patient sa…