TY - BOOK AU - Kalra,Jay ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Medical errors and patient safety: strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety AV - R729.8 .K35 2011eb U1 - 610.28/9 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Berlin PB - De Gruyter KW - Medical errors KW - United States KW - Patient safety KW - Patients KW - Safety measures KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; An overview and introduction to concepts -- Perceptions of medical error and adverse events -- Causes of medical error and adverse events -- Medical error and strategies for working solutions in clinical diagnostic laboratories and other health care areas -- Creating a culture for medical error reduction -- Improving quality in clinical diagnostic laboratories -- Barriers to open disclosure -- International laws and guidelines addressing error and disclosure -- The value of autopsy in detecting medical error and improving quality -- Total quality management, six-sigma, and health care; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10486525 ER -