Patient Safety – serie
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Effects of Herbal Supplements on Clinical Laboratory Test Results
Inbunden, 2011
386 kr
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Herbal supplements are available without prescription in many countries throughout the world and accounting for over $30 billion U.S dollar in sale. A majority of U.S population (25-40%) use herbal supplements while alternative medicines are major forms of therapy in third world countries used by …
In Vitro and In Vivo Hemolysis
An Unresolved Dispute in Laboratory Medicine
Av Giuseppe Lippi, Gianfranco Cervellin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
399 kr
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Defined as red blood cell break down and the release of hemoglobin and intracellular contents into the plasma, hemolysis can seriously impact patient care as well as the laboratory's reputation through its affect on test results. Therefore, the European Preanalytical Scientific Committee, in …
Immunodiagnostics and Patient Safety
Inbunden, 2011
397 kr
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Today most of immunochemistry methods for the determination of proteins, peptides, drugs, and many small molecules are fully automated, with good precision, excellent sensitivity and short reaction time. However, inaccuracy due to poor standardization and the presence of interfering substances in …
Medical Errors and Patient Safety
Strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety
Av Jay Kalra
Inbunden, 2011
397 kr
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Is the reporting of medical errors changing? This book shows with real cases from health care and beyond that most errors come from flaws in the system. It also shows why they don't get reported and how medical error disclosure around the world is shifting away from blaming people, to a "no-fault" …
Endogenous Interferences in Clinical Laboratory Tests
Icteric, Lipemic and Turbid Samples
Av Martin H. Kroll, Christopher R. McCudden
Inbunden, 2012
399 kr
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The goal of clinical laboratories is to produce accurate information for clinical decision making in medicine. More than half of the medical decisions made depend on clinical laboratory tests.Patient safety represents an important and critical problem for laboratories. They need to assure that the …
Malpractice in Surgery
Safety Culture and Quality Management in the Hospital
Inbunden, 2012
397 kr
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Tentative estimates suggest that one in ten patients suffers from an adverse event in hospital. In Germany, approx. 1.8 million out of approx. 18 million inpatients suffer from adverse events; 50 percent of these cases are estimated to be avoidable. In the US, nearly 100,000 people die from the …
Patient Safety - A Psychological Perspective
Inbunden, 2013
397 kr
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This comprehensive book takes a psychological perspective on patient safety. It is based on the most recent theoretical and empirical research evidence from psychology (including clinical, work, and organizational psychology) and adjacent social and behavioral sciences such as human factors. …
Transfusion Medicine and Patient Safety
Av Giustina De Silvestro, Arianna Veronesi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
399 kr
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Blood transfusion is considered a life-saving therapy since ancient times, but, at the same time, a high-risk procedure. Nowadays the common perception is that infection is the greatest risk, even if the blood has never been safer from this point of view. Currently, the residual risk of transfusion …
Laboratory quality control and patient safety
Häftad, 2017
399 kr
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Every clinical laboratory devotes considerable resources to Quality Control. Recently, the advent of concepts such as Analytical Goals, Biological Variation, Six Sigma and Risk Management has generated a renewed interest in the way to perform QC. However, laboratory QC practices remain highly …
Laboratory Test requesting Appropriateness and Patient Safety
Av María Salinas, Maite Lopez-Garrígos m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
397 kr
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The global medical process is a chain of different medical multidisciplinary procedures. The success in global Patient Safety will depend on the Safety of the consecutive medical processes that intervene in this complex system. Laboratory data is an essential part of health care, indeed it is used …
Effective Communication in Clinical Handover
From Research to Practice
Av Suzanne Eggins, Diana Slade m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
397 kr
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Based on detailed multi-disciplinary analyses of more than 800 recorded handover interactions, audits of written handover documentation, interviews and survey responses, the contributing authors identify features of effective and ineffective clinical handovers in diverse hospital contexts. The …
