First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: BB
Release: 2012-05-15
Publisher: ILR Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0801450772
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

First, Do Less Harm pdf
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Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of dollars. Despite (and sometimes because of) new medical information technology and numerous well-intentioned initiatives to address these problems, threats to patient safety remain, and in some areas are on the rise.In First, Do Less Harm, twelve health care professionals and researchers plus two former patients look at patient safety from a variety of perspectives, finding many of the proposed solutions to be inadequate or impractical. Several contributors to this book attribute the failure to confront patient safety concerns to the influence of the "market model" on medicine and emphasize the need for hospital-wide teamwork and greater involvement from frontline workers (from janitors and aide Download First, Do Less Harm for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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