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9780132724128, titled "Quality and Safety for Transformational Nursing: Core Competencies: Core Competencies" | Prentice Hall, August 26, 2012, cover price $81.80

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Product Description: Medical error as defined in Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections: Systemic and Social Causes encompasses many categories including, but not limited to, medical error, hospital-acquired infections, medication errors, deaths from misdiagnosis, deaths from infectious diarrhea in nursing homes, surgical and post-operative complications, lethal blood clots in veins, and excessive radiation from CT scans...read more
By William Charney (editor)

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9781420089295, titled "Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections: Systemic and Social Causes" | 1 edition (CRC Pr I Llc, February 6, 2012), cover price $109.95 | About this edition: Medical error as defined in Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections: Systemic and Social Causes encompasses many categories including, but not limited to, medical error, hospital-acquired infections, medication errors, deaths from misdiagnosis, deaths from infectious diarrhea in nursing homes, surgical and post-operative complications, lethal blood clots in veins, and excessive radiation from CT scans.

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9781599402840 | 5th edition (Joint Commission on, December 1, 2009), cover price $85.00

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Product Description: Ninety-eight thousand people die every year from medical errors, making it a leading cause of death in the United States, but the subject has long been taboo. All that changed with Josie. Sorrel King’s eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s new home, but was taken to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she made a remarkable recovery...read more

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9780802119209 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, September 8, 2009, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Ninety-eight thousand people die every year from medical errors, making it a leading cause of death in the United States, but the subject has long been taboo.

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Product Description: Always interesting and informed, national award-winning journalist Mark Hagland demonstrates how pioneering organizations are combining new tools with a new way of thinking to reinvent the way we deliver health care services in this country...read more
By Jeffrey C. Bauer (foreword by) and Mark Hagland

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9781420084924 | Productivity Pr, October 10, 2008, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: Always interesting and informed, national award-winning journalist Mark Hagland demonstrates how pioneering organizations are combining new tools with a new way of thinking to reinvent the way we deliver health care services in this country.

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Product Description: Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardAmerica’s healthcare system needs to change. Not only does our country spend 16 percent of its gross domestic product on healthcare, but despite spending more than other industrialized countries, our general health lags behind...read more

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9781563273674, titled "The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using Toyota-Based Methods" | Productivity Pr, December 7, 2007, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardAmerica’s healthcare system needs to change.

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Product Description: State-of-the-art counter-terrorism techniques, insights into modern medical practice, medical errors, and disaster prevention all intersect in this groundbreaking book by Adam Dorin, M.D., an anesthesiologist and medical director across 15 years...read more

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9780275996376 | 1 edition (Praeger Security Intl, November 30, 2007), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: State-of-the-art counter-terrorism techniques, insights into modern medical practice, medical errors, and disaster prevention all intersect in this groundbreaking book by Adam Dorin, M.

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Product Description: This book discusses how patients can be harmed while being treated for disease and how to select the treatment that provides the greatest benefit to the patient and the least risk of harm. Although American medicine can provide the best care in the world the health care system is often flawed...read more

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9781600218842 | 1 edition (Nova Science Pub Inc, January 31, 2007), cover price $79.00 | About this edition: This book discusses how patients can be harmed while being treated for disease and how to select the treatment that provides the greatest benefit to the patient and the least risk of harm.

By Joint Commission (corporate author)

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9780866889926 | 1 edition (Joint Commission on, April 1, 2006), cover price $75.00

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Product Description: A nation watched in horror as 17-year-old Jessica Santillian died needlessly after a heart-lung transplant in 2003. She had been given organs with the wrong blood type. That error killed her. It is just one among tens of thousands of less publicized errors that occur in U...read more

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9780275982300 | Praeger Pub Text, October 30, 2004, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: A nation watched in horror as 17-year-old Jessica Santillian died needlessly after a heart-lung transplant in 2003.

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Describes some of the ways in which medical treatments can go wrong, explains why such disasters occur and how the medical establishment tries to keep problems quiet, and argues for changes to prevent future errors.

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9780895261120 | Lifeline Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Describes some of the ways in which medical treatments can go wrong, explains why such disasters occur and how the medical establishment tries to keep problems quiet, and argues for changes to prevent future errors.

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