The Problem, the Pitfalls, and a Successful SafetyInitiative in Anaesthesia
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The rate of injury and death inadvertently caused bymedical treatment is too high and exacts enormoushuman and financial costs. Each year in Britain andthe United States alone, hundreds of thousands ofpatients are injured, ten of thousands are killed andbillions of dollars are spent on additional healthcare due to treatment-related harm. This bookdocuments one of the first successful attempts toredesign error-prone medical systems, specificallydrug administration in anaesthesia, according to themodern safety principles advocated by the Instituteof Medicine and others in the human factors field.Safer systems will initially cost a little more -leading many hospital managers to conclude that theycannot afford to make their hospitals safer. However,harming patients during their treatment, and thenhaving to treat them for such harm, isextraordinarily inefficient and expensive. The scopefor savings by avoiding patient harm is thereforelarge, to say nothing of the reduction in humansuffering. This book does not require the reader tobe a specialist and will be of interest to anyoneinvolved in system change or safety improvement inmedicine.
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