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What are the Advantages of Electronic Medical Records
Gives some advantages of electronic medical records.
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Medical Mistakes
Explains how when a mistake is make the public should be made aware of it. Discusses how hospitals are trying to fight with having to admit to their mistakes. Gives a number of examples of people that were affected by medical mistakes.
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Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of Medical Mistakes That Kill and Injure Millions of Americans
Discusses how most hospitals weren't designed with safety in mind. Addresses the "culture of cover-up". Medical professionals all belong to their own "tribe".
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A Mediation Skills Model To Manage Disclosure Of Errors And Adverse Events To Patients
Describes new requirements that could create possible benefits for both patient safety and litigation risk management. Describes a model for accomplishing these goals that encourages health care providers to communicate more effectively with patients following an adverse event or medical error, learn from mistakes,etc...
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Fixing Hospitals
Provides some statistics about medical facilities safety and practices. Discusses on how hospitals can improve on safety and practices that affect the patient.
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MEDICATION ERRORS: Ending the blame-game
Says hospitals need to have programs that encourage employees to admit their mistakes. Different medical mistake cases were examined. Represented analyzed data obtained during a descriptive, correlational study.
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Confronting medical errors
Discusses new systems/technologies medical facilities can use to improve patient safety. Believes doctors medical mistakes should be made public.
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Managing care in the new era of "systems-think"
Discusses three major trends in American health policy. Brings up specific cases that involved mistakes made by medical professionals.
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Mistakes that kill
Discusses cases where patients died from medical mistakes. She talks about what can be done to help solve the problem.
