- 384 pages
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About this book
Recent debate over healthcare and its spiraling costs has brought medical error into the spotlight as an indicator of everything that is ineffective, inhumane, and wasteful about modern medicine. But while the tendency is to blame it all on human error, it is a much more complex problem that involves overburdened systems, constantly changing techno
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- Authorās Very Short Introduction: Minimizing Errors in Medicine
- Chapter 1. Putting Medical Errorin Context: Minimizing Errors in MedicineāBeyond theāOops!ā Factor
- Chapter 2. The Valued Legacy of Error and Harm in General: Error and Harm across General Human Experience in Nonmedical DomainsāWelcome to Lathology
- Chapter 3. Error andHarm in Health Sciences: Defining and Classifying Human Error and Its Consequences in Clinical and Community Settings
- Chapter 4. Describing Medical Error and Harm: Their Occurrence and Nature in Clinical and Community Settings
- Chapter 5. Analyzing Medical Error and Harm: Searching for Their Causes and Consequences
- Chapter 6. Flaws in Operator Reasoning and Decision Making Underlying Medical Error and Harm
- Chapter 7. Prevention, Intervention, and Control of Medical Error and Harm: Clinical Epidemiological Considerations of Actions and Their Evaluation
- Chapter 8. Taking Medical Error and Harm to Court: Contributions and Expectations of Physicians in Tort Litigation and Legal Decision Making
- Conclusions
- A Brief and (Hopefully) Harmonized Glossary
- Appendix A: List of Cognitive Biases
- Appendix B: List of Fallacies
- Appendix C: Medical Error and HarmāRelated Case Report
- About the Author
- Back cover