Medical errors and patient safety strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety / [electronic resource] :
Jay Kalra.
- Berlin : De Gruyter, c2011.
- viii, 113 p. : ill.
- Patient safety ; v. 1 .
- Patient safety ; v. 1. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An overview and introduction to concepts -- Perceptions of medical error and adverse events -- Causes of medical error and adverse events -- Medical error and strategies for working solutions in clinical diagnostic laboratories and other health care areas -- Creating a culture for medical error reduction -- Improving quality in clinical diagnostic laboratories -- Barriers to open disclosure -- International laws and guidelines addressing error and disclosure -- The value of autopsy in detecting medical error and improving quality -- Total quality management, six-sigma, and health care.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Medical errors--United States. Patient safety. Patients--Safety measures--United States.