Medical Error and Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine

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.

Business & Money

Peters, George A.

Peters, Barbara J.

Economics

CRC-Press

Human Error: Causes and Control

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Automotive Vehicle Safety

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.

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

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.

Reference

Automotive Engineering and Litigation: The International Directory of Experts and Consultants in Automotive Engineering, 1994 Supplement

Wiley Law Pubns

Automotive Engineering and Litigation

Automotive Engineering and Litigation (Automotive Engineering & Litigation)

Peters, Edited by: George A.

Rules & Procedures

John Wiley&Sons

Automotive Engineering and Litigation, Vol. 5 (Personal Injury Library Series) [Jan 01, 1993] Peters, George A. and Peters, Barbara J. ...

Automotive Engineering and Litigation, Vol. 5 (Personal Injury Library Series)

One of the earliest, most important, and difficult tasks for the lawyer evaluating a claim or lawsuit is the appropriate selection of a technical consultant or expert witness. This is particularly true where the primary issue is in what appears to be a remote or unfamiliar area of specialization where a general purpose expert may not seem sufficiently qualified to the potential trier of fact. Lawyers may expend a great deal of effort attempting to locate a possible expert. This volume contains a large and diverse listing of consultants and experts in areas directly related to automotive engineering and litigation.

Automotive Engineering and Litigation: The International Directory of Experts and Consultants in Automotive Engineering 1993 (Personal Injury Library), Volume 6

Surprisingly, many couples about to remarry and start step-parenting do not even read a book about it (less than fifty percent do). But education aboutmarriage and parenting does increase marital success. "'You're NOT my dad!' How do I even respond to that? What would my wife want me to say? These problems are so difficult to navigate. I am happy to see this book come along. I can't wait to start cooking!"-Steve, stepdadBarbara Peters shares effective strategies that empower blended families to be successful, such as building trust, working together to create the family they desire, and good advice on what not to say about "exes." The recipe format is delightfully creative to read and practical to use.-Elisabeth Davies, author and mental health counselorI have performed numerous wedding ceremonies for brides and grooms who haven't a clue of the blended family issues to come. This book provides guidance for the conversations couples must have prior to the 'I dos' with the kids. This is a book you must read before you create a mess in your blended family kitchen.-Larry James, author of How to Really Love the One You're WithA Pivotal book from Barbara J Peters, counselor and relationship coach presenting easy to follow recipes for a lifetime blended marriage. Barbara Peters has been helping couples for years with her other books such as The Gift of a Lifetime, Building a Marriage That Lasts and He Said She Said I Said 7 Keys to Relationship Success.This book offers the necessary and critical ingredients of creating a solid blended family. These principles can strengthen the parent relationship. Parents will be providing a positive role model for their children to see and families will become more cohesive by using the recipe of shared family identity. A small workbook section helps the reader put into action the concepts suggested by Barbara. By practicing such principles as flexibility and trust, the two of you can forge connections that can support each individual of the family, even into the next generation.

Blended Families: Recipes for Success

Self-Help

Relationships

Barbara J Peters

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