Vignettes in Patient Safety Volume 3

• Other Authors: Stawicki, Stanislaw P. (Editor), Firstenberg, Michael S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2018
• Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; risk management, pathology, meta-analysis, injury, primary care, critical illness
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Over the past decade it has been increasingly recognized that medical errors constitute an important determinant of patient safety, quality of care, and clinical outcomes. Such errors are both directly and indirectly responsible for unnecessary and potentially preventable morbidity and/or mortality...