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Epidemic of medical errors and hospital-acquired infections : systemic and social causes / edited by William Charney.
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TextPublication details: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2012.Description: 342 pISBN: - 9781420089295
- Medical Errors -- prevention & control -- United States
- Cross Infection -- prevention & control -- United States
- Delivery of Health Care -- economics -- United States
- Health Personnel -- organization & administration -- United States
- Infection Control -- methods -- United States
- Quality Assurance, Health Care -- economics -- United States
- R729.8 E64 2012
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HKBU library
YT2025 M08
"'Do no harm' a particularly leading and important phrase in the delivery of healthcare is not working. In fact depending on the epidemiological approach and which data sets one applies, medical errors, hospital acquired infections (HAIs) and pharmaceutical errors combined are the second or third leading killer of Americans annually: approximately 300,000 die from a combination of medical errors, hospital acquired infections (HAIs), and pharmaceutical errors...100,000 per category. Add to these numbers the hundreds of thousands who are harmed (morbidity) but not killed (mortality) changing quality of life and a substantial problem is defined"--
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