Vignettes in Patient Safety Volume 2

• Other Authors: Firstenberg, Michael S. (Editor), Stawicki, Stanislaw P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2018
• Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; reliability, fatigue, burnout, critical care, ophthalmology, graduate medical education
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Over the past two decades, the healthcare community increasingly recognized the importance and the impact of medical errors on patient safety and clinical outcomes. Medical and surgical errors continue to contribute to unnecessary and potentially preventable morbidity and/or mortality, affecting bot...