Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System Pdf

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Release: 2008-04-01
Publisher: IGI Press
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN/ASIN: B003VWCJ3A
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Fatal Care pdf
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Each year as many as 98,000 patient deaths occur in the U.S. as a result of preventable medical errors in hospitals. Preventable medical errors alone impact or harm at least 5 million Americans annually, costing more than -21 billion. These sobering statistics from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) provide a glimpse into a national crisis that harms or kills hundreds of innocent people each day. But they are only nameless, faceless numbers and can't illustrate the human cost behind the data. Moreover, they only reveal the problem and not the underlying causes or potential solutions.

Fatal Care takes readers behind the statistics and into the lives of those who have experienced, first hand, the impact of what these numbers represent. Their individual stories embody all of the drama and tension found in popular medical series television productions. The portraits of these flesh-and-blood characters and their families will res Download Fatal Care for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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