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100 1 _aWachter, Robert M.
245 1 0 _aInternal bleeding :
_bthe truth behind America's terrifying epidemic of medical mistakes /
_cRobert M. Wachter, Kaveh G. Shojania.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York City, NY :
_bRugged Land,
_c©2004.
300 _a441 pages, [8] pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 390-428) and index.
505 0 _aA New Epidemic -- The System -- The Wrong Patient -- It's The System, Stupid -- Jumbo Jets Crashing -- The Errors of Our Way -- Doctors' Handwriting and Other Prescribing Errors -- The Forgotten Half of Medication Errors -- Solving the Riddle -- Of Life and Limb -- Did We Forget Something? -- Practice Makes Perfect -- Handoffs and Fumbles -- See One, Do One, Teach One -- Hubris and Teamwork -- The Other End of the Stethoscope -- Consequences -- Spilling the Beans -- Whether Reports? -- Malpractice -- Accountability -- Cures -- Attacking a New Disease -- What Can Policymakers Do? -- A Culture of Safety -- A system of Safety -- What Can Patients Do? -- List of the Seventeen Individual Errors in the Wrong Patient Case -- Dangerous Abbreviations Used in Prescribing -- Examples of Easily Confused Sound-Alike or Look-Alike Drugs.
520 _aTwo doctors and experts in the study of patient safety and hospital quality provide a close-up look at the medical errors that occur in America's overburdened, underinsured, and often unaccountable health-care system.
650 0 _aMedical errors.
650 0 _aMedical care
_zUnited States.
650 1 2 _aHealth Facility Administration.
650 1 2 _aMedical Errors.
651 2 _aUnited States.
700 1 _aShojania, Kaveh G.
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