The rate of injury and death inadvertently caused by medical
treatment is too high and exacts enormous human and financial
costs. Each year in Britain and the United States alone, hundreds
of thousands of patients are injured, ten of thousands are killed
and billions of dollars are spent on additional health care due to
treatment-related harm. This book documents one of the first
successful attempts to redesign error-prone medical systems,
specifically drug administration in anaesthesia, according to the
modern safety principles advocated by the Institute of Medicine and
others in the human factors field. Safer systems will initially
cost a little more - leading many hospital managers to conclude
that they cannot afford to make their hospitals safer. However,
harming patients during their treatment, and then having to treat
them for such harm, is extraordinarily inefficient and expensive.
The scope for savings by avoiding patient harm is therefore large,
to say nothing of the reduction in human suffering. This book does
not require the reader to be a specialist and will be of interest
to anyone involved in system change or safety improvement in
medicine.
General
Imprint: |
VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
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Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
November 2008 |
First published: |
November 2008 |
Authors: |
Craig Webster
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
196 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-8364-8255-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
General
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LSN: |
3-8364-8255-X |
Barcode: |
9783836482554 |
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