This title drills deeply into the broken American health care industry-demonstrating how the medical industry's self-serving interests have run afoul of safe care. Written by passionate experts in multiple relevant fields, this book shows readers how the system works, why it works this way, how it harms and often kills people and how we can fix it.
This title drills deeply into the broken American health care industry-demonstrating how the medical industry's self-serving interests have run afoul of safe care. Written by passionate experts in multiple relevant fields, this book shows readers how the system works, why it works this way, how it harms and often kills people and how we can fix it.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Cheryl Brown, DBA, RN, U.S. Army Nurse retired, serves as an Army Medical Command Patient Safety Nurse Consultant for patient safety managers assisting with Sentinel Event root cause analysis and providing feedback for process improvement. She served as Commander of a Combat Support Hospital and is a trauma nurse veteran of the Persian Gulf War. She contributed clinical expertise for a ground nurse character in the book Centerline. She completed research on Automated Dispensing Cabinet Improvements Implemented in Army Hospitals to Decrease Medication Errors and is a coauthor for "Overcoming Benchmarking Reluctance: A Literature Review" (Benchmarking: An International Journal, 2012). John T. James, PhD, is the former chief toxicologist at a federal agency where he received numerous meritorious awards and wrote many book chapters and monographs dealing with spaceflight safety. As a result of the loss of his oldest son to medical errors in 2002, he has become a patient safety activist, having published a book in 2007 about his son's care (A Sea of Broken Hearts) and proposing a national patient bill of rights to empower and protect patients. He publishes a monthly electronic newsletter on patient safety issues and has been appointed to the State of Texas Healthcare Acquired Infection and Preventable Adverse Event Advisory Panel. He just published an evidence-based, peer-reviewed study in a medical journal in which he estimated that more than 400,000 Americans have their lives shortened by medical errors in hospitals. He founded Patient Safety America, whose website is http://PatientSafetyAmerica.com.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: The Empowered Patient John T. James PhD DABT and Cheryl L. Brown DBA RN 1. The Failure of State Medical Boards to Protect the Public Yanling Yu PhD 2. Secrets of the National Practitioner Data Bank and the Failure of Medical Licensing Boards Hospitals and the Legal System to Protect the Public from Dangerous Physicians Robert E. Oshel PhD 3. Failures and Successes of Physician Peer and Performance Review Gerald Rogan MD 4. Dangerous Medical Devices John T. James PhD and Stephen S. Tower MD 5. A Contemporary Review of Health Care-Associated Infections Daniel M. Saman DrPH MPH CPH 6. Oversight of Physician Offices: Dr. Welby or Dr. Applebee? Evelyn V. McKnight AuD 7. Prescription Drugs-To Heal and to Harm John T. James PhD DABT 8. After the Harm: Apology Disclosure and Trust Cheryl Brown DBA RN 9. The Consumer Advocates Who Kicked the Hospital-Infection Nest Lisa McGiffert Director Consumers Union Safe Patient Project 10. Medical Guidelines and Informed Consent-Routes to Safer Medical Care Denise Lasater DBA RN; Cheryl Brown DBA RN; and John T. James PhD 11. Medical Imaging: Does It Help? Kiran Sagar MD FAHA FACC Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Contributors
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: The Empowered Patient John T. James PhD DABT and Cheryl L. Brown DBA RN 1. The Failure of State Medical Boards to Protect the Public Yanling Yu PhD 2. Secrets of the National Practitioner Data Bank and the Failure of Medical Licensing Boards Hospitals and the Legal System to Protect the Public from Dangerous Physicians Robert E. Oshel PhD 3. Failures and Successes of Physician Peer and Performance Review Gerald Rogan MD 4. Dangerous Medical Devices John T. James PhD and Stephen S. Tower MD 5. A Contemporary Review of Health Care-Associated Infections Daniel M. Saman DrPH MPH CPH 6. Oversight of Physician Offices: Dr. Welby or Dr. Applebee? Evelyn V. McKnight AuD 7. Prescription Drugs-To Heal and to Harm John T. James PhD DABT 8. After the Harm: Apology Disclosure and Trust Cheryl Brown DBA RN 9. The Consumer Advocates Who Kicked the Hospital-Infection Nest Lisa McGiffert Director Consumers Union Safe Patient Project 10. Medical Guidelines and Informed Consent-Routes to Safer Medical Care Denise Lasater DBA RN; Cheryl Brown DBA RN; and John T. James PhD 11. Medical Imaging: Does It Help? Kiran Sagar MD FAHA FACC Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Contributors
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