Epidemic of medical errors and hospital-acquired infections : systemic and social causes /
"'Do no harm' a particularly leading and important phrase in the delivery of healthcare is not working. In fact depending on the epidemiological approach and which data sets one applies, medical errors, hospital acquired infections (HAIs) and pharmaceutical errors combined are the sec...
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Boca Raton :
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Do no harm : a social science approach to medical errors and hospital-acquired infections : a systemic approach to the epidemic
- For-profit care : its effect on medical errors
- Medical errors
- Nosocomial diseases : a discussion of issues and prevention
- No more preventable deaths : hospital-acquired infections in Canada and one union's campaign to stop them
- Hospital epidemiology
- Staffing and medical errors
- Working conditions and patient safety : impacts on medical errors
- Shift work and its impact on medical error
- Bullying and medical errors
- The relationship between lateral and horizontal violence and bullying : nurses and patient safety
- Special populations : medical error and infection
- Personal protective equipment : patient and worker safety
- Legal issues
- Technology and medical errors
- Nursing injury rates and negative patient outcomes : connecting the dots
- Industrial hygiene for health-care workers : exposures causing injuries
- Perspectives of a frontline nurse
- Medical error : a personal story.