| Books |
| Medical
error and patient safety books in the world today number in
the hundreds of books. At this web page we focus on major books
on the topics of healthcare error and patient safety. We also
include classic quality improvement and specific medical error
reduction works. |
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| TOP
PICKS |
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| To
Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System - Institute of
Medicine, Committee on Health Care Quality in America; Linda
Kohn, Janet Corrigan and Molla Donaldson,Editors1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0309068371/medicalerrorredu |
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| Enhancing
Patient Safety and Reducing Errors in Health Care-National Patient
Safety Foundation, Adam Scheffler & Lorri Zipperer (Editors),
1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1579470556/medicalerrorredu |
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| Error
Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient
Safety-American Hospital Association; Patrice Spath, 1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/155648271X/medicalerrorredu
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| Medication
Use |
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| Reducing
Adverse Drug Events- Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Breakthrough
Series Guide; Lucian Leape, MD, Donald Berwick, MD, Andrea Kabcenell,
Penny Carver (Editor), 1998 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1890070033/medicalerrorredu |
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| Medication
Errors- Institute for Safe Medication Practices and American
Pharmaceutical Association; Michael R. Cohen, 1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0917330897/medicalerrorredu
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| First
Do No Harm: A Practical Guide to Medication Safety and JCAHO
Compliance- Opus Communications; David Beardsley (Editor), 1999
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| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578390354/medicalerrorredu |
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| Improving
the Quality of the Medication Use Process: Error Prevention
and Reducing Adverse Drug Events-Harworth Press; Alan Escovitz,
Dev Pathak, Phillip Schneider (Editors), 1998 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789004585/medicalerrorredu |
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| Mishaps,
Accidents & Error |
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| Medical
Mishaps: Pieces of the Puzzle- Open University Press Rosenthal,
Mulcahy, and Lloyd-Bostock, 1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0335202594/medicalerrorredu |
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| Medical
Harm: Historical, Conceptual, and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic
Illness- Cambridge University Press ; Virginia Sharpe and Alan
Faden, 1998 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521634903/medicalerrorredu |
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| Normal
Accidents : Living With High-Risk Technologies - Princeton University
Press ; Charles Perrow, 1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691004129/medicalerrorredu |
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| Human
Error: Cause, Prediction and Reduction - Lawrence Erlbaum Associates;
John Senders, Neville Moray (Editor), 1991 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898595983/medicalerrorredu |
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| Human
Error in Medicine - Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; Marilyn Sue
Bogner (Editor), 1994 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805813861/medicalerrorredu |
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| CLASSICS |
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| Human
Error- Cambridge University Press ; James Reason, 1990 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521314194/medicalerrorredu |
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| Deming
Management Method- - Perigee ; W. Edwards Deming and Mary Walton,
1988 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399550003/medicalerrorredu |
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| Out
of the Crisis- Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; W. Edwards
Deming, 1986 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0911379010/medicalerrorredu |
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| Curing
Health Care : New Strategies for Quality Improvement-Jossey-Bass
Publishers ; Don Berwick, Blanton Godfrey and Jane Roessner,
1990 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555422942/medicalerrorredu |
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| The
Improvement Guide : A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational
Performance-Jossey-Bass Publishers ; Gerald Langley, Kevin Nolan,
Thomas W. Nolan, Lloyd Provost and Clifford Norman, 1996 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787902578/medicalerrorredu
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| Complex
Organizations : A Critical Essay- McGraw Hill College Division
; Charles Perrow, 1986 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0075547996/medicalerrorredu |
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| ROOT
CAUSE ANALYSIS |
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| Root
Cause Analysis: Simplified Tools and Techniques-McGraw-Hill
Bjorn Anderson and Tom Fagerhaug, 2000 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0873894669/medicalerrorredu |
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| Investigating
Sentinel Events: How to Find and Resolve Root Causes-Brown -Spath
Associates ; Patrice Spath, 1997 , Available via |
| https://secure.cseweb.com/spath/cart/
or from Amazon.com at |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1929955057/medicalerrorredu |
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| Root
Cause Analysis in Health Care: Tools and Techniques - JCAHO,1999
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| http://www.jcaho.org/ |
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| Root
Cause Analysis Handbook: A Guide to Effective Incident Investigation-
Government Institutes, 1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0865876584/medicalerrorredu
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| Root
Cause Analysis: A Tool for Total Quality Management-American
Society for Quality ; Wilson, Dell, Anderson and Wilson, 1993
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| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0873891635/medicalerrorredu |
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| Root
Cause Analysis: Improving Performance for Bottom Line Results-
CRC Press ; Robert Latino and Kenneth Latino, 1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0849307732/medicalerrorredu |
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| The
Root Cause Analysis Handbook - A Simplified Approach to Identifying,
Correcting, and Reporting Workplace Errors Productivity Inc.;
Max Ammerman, 1998 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0527763268/medicalerrorredu |
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| SURGICAL
AND ANESTHETIC |
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| Patient
Safety in Anesthetic Practice- Churchill Livingstone Publishers
Robert Morell and John Eichorn, 1997 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0443076820/medicalerrorredu |
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| Near
Misses in Pediatric Anesthesia - Butterworth-Heinemann Medical
J.G. Brock-Utne, 1998 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0750670185/medicalerrorredu |
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| PATIENT
/ PUBLIC |
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| Working
with your Doctor : Getting the Healthcare You Deserve- O'Reilly
& Associates; Nancy Keene, 1998 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565922735/medicalerrorredu |
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| Provider
Report Cards : A Guide for Promoting Health Care Quality to
the Public-American Hospital Association ; Patrice Spath, 1999
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| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556482507/medicalerrorredu
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| The
Intelligent Patient's Guide to the Doctor-Patient Relationship
: Learning How to Talk So Your Doctor Will Listen- by Barbara
Korsch & Caroline Harding, 1998 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195126572/medicalerrorredu |
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| Demanding
Medical Excellence : Doctors and Accountability in the Information
Age-University of Chicago Press ; Michael Millenson, 1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226525880/medicalerrorredu |
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| ENVIRONMENT
OF CARE SAFETY & ERROR REDUCTION |
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| Human
Error Reduction and Safety Management-John Wiley &Sons Dan
Peterson, 1997 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471287407/medicalerrorredu |
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| ORGANIZATION
& STRATEGY |
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| Health
Care Management: Organization, Design, and Behavior- Delmar
Publishers; Stephen Shortell & Arnold Kaluzny (Editors),
2000 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0766810720/medicalerrorredu |
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| The
Quality Advantage: A Strategic Guide for Health Care Leaders-
American Hospital Publishers; Julianne Morath & Paul Batalden,
1998 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556482566/medicalerrorredu |
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| Ending
the Blame Culture- Gower Publishing ; Michael Pearn, Chris Mulrooney,
Tim Payne, 1998 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0566079968/medicalerrorredu |
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| Quality
and Me: Lessons from an Evolving Life- Jossey-Bass Publishers;
Philip Crosby, 1999 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787947024/medicalerrorredu |
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| OTHER
ERROR RELATED |
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| Medical
Abbreviations: 8600 Conveniences at the Expense of Communications
and Safety - NM Davis Publications; Neil Davis, 6th Edition
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| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0931431069/medicalerrorredu
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| Iatrogenic
Diseases - Oxford University Press; P.D. D'Arcy, 1986 |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192614401/medicalerrorredu
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