Errors in medicine

Human Error in Medicine Bogner, M.S., Ed. Lawrence Erlbaum Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1994. 

Cook, R.I. Woods, D.D. Operating at the sharp end The complexity of human error. In Human Error in Medicine, Bogner, M.S., Ed. Erlbaum Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1994 258-287... 

Cooper and Leape are not the only authors to understand the importance of human factors and psychology to medical harm and medical error at an early stage. For instance, Marilyn Bogner s 1994 book Human error in medicine contained many insightful and important chapters by David Woods, Richard Cook, NevUle Moray and others James Reason articulated his theory of accidents and discussed its apphcation in medicine in Medical Accidents (Vincent, Ennis and Audley, 1993). Cooper and Leape were, however, particularly important influences and they Ulustrate the more general point that some of the defining characteristics of patient safety are its acceptance of the importance of psychology and the lessons to be learnt from other safety critical industries. 

Graber, M., Gordon, R. and Franklin, N. (2002) Reducing diagnostic errors in medicine what s the goal Academic Medicine, 77(10), 981-992. 

Leape, L.L. (1994) Error in medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 272 (23), 1851-1857. 

In his landmark paper on error in medicine, Lucian Leape (1994) argued that one of the most important reasons that clinicians have difficulty dealing with error is because of the culture of medical practice. He argued that physicians are socialized from the very first days of medical school to believe that errors are simply not acceptable. While error-free practice is a worthy ambition it is, of course, completely unattainable, so an internal conflict is inevitable ... 

Moray, N. 1994. Error reduction as a systems problem. In M.S. Bogner (ed.). Human Error in Medicine. Hillsdale, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 67-91. 

Cook, R. L, Woods, D. D., Operating at the Sharp End The Complexity of Human Error, in Human Error in Medicine, edited by M. S. Bogner, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1994, pp. 225-309. 

Amalberti, R. Human Error in Medicine. Paper presented at the Salzburg International Seminar on Patient Safety and Medical Accident, Apr. 25-May 2, 2001. 

Bohmer, R. Complexipf and Error in Medicine. Boston Harvard Business School Press, 1998. HBS Case Study 9-699-024. 

Leape LL. Errors in medicine. Chn Chim Acta June 2009 404(1) 2—5. 

Helmreich, R. and Schaefer, H.G. (1994), Team performance in the operating room, in Human Error in Medicine Ed, Bogner, M., Hillsdale, NJ Erlbaum, pp. 224— 253. 

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