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You are here > Home > Reading Lists & Books > Risk, Liability & Patient Safety > The Patients Guide to Preventing Medical Error The Patient's Guide to Preventing Medical
Errors Hardcover: 288 pages Caregivers, although this book is written for patients, it is an excellent source of information for your patient teaching modules and risk management programs. Your instructions to patients about preventing medical errors is critical to the success of your error reduction programs. The book details over 200 tips for improving patient safety. The nation watched in horror as 17-year-old Jessica Santillian died needlessly after a heart-lung transplant in 2003. She had been given organs with the wrong blood type. That error killed her. It is just one among tens of thousands of less publicized errors that occur in U.S. hospitals each year. Author Karin Berntsen, a veteran of the hospital and health care industry, takes us through the headlines, and the events never publicized, into hospital wards and surgical rooms to see how errors are made causing disability or death. The author gives graphic examples of actual events that illustrate the problems cited in a federal Institute of Medicine report showing medical errors in the hospital cause 44,000 to 98,000 deaths each year. Those errors include medication mistakes, wrong site or side surgery, and botched transfusions. “Well-selected case studies emphasize that consumers must be on guard, know what to expect, and be free to communicate, refuse, and delay an intervention when an error is suspected.... Recommended. All levels.”–Choice Berntsen explains why these are not just human errors with one or two people responsible; they are systems failures that require a major culture change to remedy. And that change, she argues, may not come without action by the very people the medical system is designed to help: patients. She offers clear actions consumers can take to assure they are not on the receiving end of a medical error. KARIN JANINE BERNTSEN, RN is a health care executive, speaker and consultant in patient safety. She is President of Preventing Medical Errors (PME). PME is committed to forging partnership between health care professionals and the public in order to reduce medical errors. Her newly published book covers key issues that need to be established to impact the crisis of medical errors in U.S. Hospitals. (information provided by the publisher) You may also be interested in / The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go to / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore |
