Human Error in Medicine

by Marilyn Sue Bogner

Book Overview

This edited collection of articles addresses aspects of medical care in which human error is associated with unanticipated adverse outcomes. For the purposes of this book, human error encompasses mismanagement of medical care due to:
* inadequacies or ambiguity in the design of a medical device or institutional setting for the delivery of medical care;
* inappropriate responses to antagonistic environmental conditions such as crowding and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805813861
• ISBN13: 9780805813869
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"