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A difficult and recalcitrant phenomenon, medical error causes
pervasive and expensive problems in terms of patient injury,
ineffective treatment, and rising healthcare costs. Simple
heightened awareness can help, but it requires organized, effective
remedies and countermeasures that are reasonable, acceptable, and
adaptable to see a truly significant drop in the intolerable rate
of medical mistakes. Only with better understanding, knowledge, and
directed techniques can there be rapid and marked improvement in
medical error management discipline. Since medical error is
situation specific and involves diverse variables in equipment,
environment, and human performance, the correct choice of
preventive and corrective techniques is critical. Providing a
wealth of useful ideas, concepts, and techniques, Medical Error and
Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine uses abroad perspective
to present more than 500 remedies that can be applied and tailored
to your unique circumstances. This detailed review of so many
measures enables you to correctly identify needs and undertake
appropriate actions to achieve a success that can be measured in
avoided injuries, improved healthcare, and reduced cost. Thought
provoking and useful, this book considers the potential for error
and the possibility for improvement in every aspect of healthcare.
After an introduction to general concepts and approaches, it
examines vulnerabilities in medical services, including emergency
services, healthcare facilities, and infection control. It covers
risks in medical devices and product design; human factors such as
fatigue and stress; management errors; errors in communication at
all levels of the healthcare hierarchy; as well as mistakes in drug
delivery including faulty labels and warnings. The authors also
compare and contrast several analytical methods, their
interpretation, and their translation into a plan of action.
Human error is regularly viewed as an inevitable part of everyday
life. In many cases the results of human error are harmless and
correctable, but in cases where injury and death can occur,
reduction of error is imperative. An integration of useful
how-to-do-it information, Human Error: Causes and Control covers
theories, methods, and specific techniques for controlling human
error. It provides ideas, concepts, and examples from which
selections can be made to fit the needs of a particular situation.
Detailed, practical, and broad in scope, the book explores the
field of human error, including its identification, its probable
cause, and how it can be reasonably controlled or prevented.
Experts in human factors, design engineering, and law, the authors
explore and apply known generic principles effective in the
prevention of consumer error, worker fault, managerial mistakes,
and organizational blunders. They discuss errors and their effects
in our increasingly complex technological society and delineate how
to devise a proper framework, select workable concepts and
techniques, and then implement them. Exploring widespread
applications of the techniques, the book illustrates how to achieve
a fully integrated, process-compatible, comprehensive,
user-effective, and methodologically sound model.
Automotive Vehicle Safety is a unique academic text, practical
design guide and valuable reference book. It provides information
that is essential for specialists to make better-informed
decisions. The book identifies and discusses key generic safety
principles and their applications and includes decision-making
criteria, examples and remedies. It provides the reader with
in-depth information on human simulation, human error control,
driver distractions, future vehicle safety and universal design and
details accident reconstruction techniques and methods of crash
testing. Automotive Vehicle Safety shows the reader how to evaluate
products, processes, services and systems.
Human error is regularly viewed as an inevitable part of everyday
life. In many cases the results of human error are harmless and
correctable, but in cases where injury and death can occur,
reduction of error is imperative. An integration of useful
how-to-do-it information, Human Error: Causes and Control covers
theories, methods, and specific techniques for controlling human
error. It provides ideas, concepts, and examples from which
selections can be made to fit the needs of a particular situation.
Detailed, practical, and broad in scope, the book explores the
field of human error, including its identification, its probable
cause, and how it can be reasonably controlled or prevented.
Experts in human factors, design engineering, and law, the
authors explore and apply known generic principles effective in the
prevention of consumer error, worker fault, managerial mistakes,
and organizational blunders. They discuss errors and their effects
in our increasingly complex technological society and delineate how
to devise a proper framework, select workable concepts and
techniques, and then implement them. Exploring widespread
applications of the techniques, the book illustrates how to achieve
a fully integrated, process-compatible, comprehensive,
user-effective, and methodologically sound model.
Automotive Vehicle Safety is a unique academic text, practical design guide and valuable reference book. It provides information that is essential for specialists to make better-informed decisions. Key generic safety principles and their applications are identified and discussed. The book includes decision-making criteria, examples and remedies. It provides the reader with in-depth information on human simulation, human error control, driver distractions, future vehicle safety and universal design. It also details accident reconstruction techniques and methods of crash testing. Automotive Vehicle Safety is internationally-orientated in how to evaluate products, processes, services and systems. eBook available with sample pages: 0203166302
A difficult and recalcitrant phenomenon, medical error causes
pervasive and expensive problems in terms of patient injury,
ineffective treatment, and rising healthcare costs. Simple
heightened awareness can help, but it requires organized, effective
remedies and countermeasures that are reasonable, acceptable, and
adaptable to see a truly significant drop in the intolerable rate
of medical mistakes. Only with better understanding, knowledge, and
directed techniques can there be rapid and marked improvement in
medical error management discipline. Since medical error is
situation specific and involves diverse variables in equipment,
environment, and human performance, the correct choice of
preventive and corrective techniques is critical. Providing a
wealth of useful ideas, concepts, and techniques, Medical Error and
Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine uses abroad perspective
to present more than 500 remedies that can be applied and tailored
to your unique circumstances. This detailed review of so many
measures enables you to correctly identify needs and undertake
appropriate actions to achieve a success that can be measured in
avoided injuries, improved healthcare, and reduced cost. Thought
provoking and useful, this book considers the potential for error
and the possibility for improvement in every aspect of healthcare.
After an introduction to general concepts and approaches, it
examines vulnerabilities in medical services, including emergency
services, healthcare facilities, and infection control. It covers
risks in medical devices and product design; human factors such as
fatigue and stress; management errors; errors in communication at
all levels of the healthcare hierarchy; as well as mistakes in drug
delivery including faulty labels and warnings. The authors also
compare and contrast several analytical methods, their
interpretation, and their translation into a plan of action.
This book is the ideal guide for those contemplating marriage;
those newly married; or those renewing their vows. Through
counseling advice, and the acronyms "FACTS" and "FAITH" Barbara
Peters outlines the steps needed to have a successful marriage.
Barbara uses some case scenarios from her own practice to
illustrate her message. Married couples may see some of their own
problems discussed in the book, and find this is a map along the
road to a happy marriage. The book is also intended to be a gift.
Newlyweds can present it to each other and then pass to future
generations to foster the benefits of life long commitments.
This book is the ideal guide for those contemplating marriage;
those newly married; or those renewing their vows. Through
counseling advice, and the acronyms "FACTS" and "FAITH" Barbara
Peters outlines the steps needed to have a successful marriage.
Barbara uses some case scenarios from her own practice to
illustrate her message. Married couples may see some of their own
problems discussed in the book, and find this is a map along the
road to a happy marriage. The book is also intended to be a gift.
Newlyweds can present it to each other and then pass to future
generations to foster the benefits of life long commitments.
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