商品簡介
This title drills deeply into our broken health care industry—demonstrating how the medical industry's self-serving interests have run afoul of safe care. Written by passionate experts in multiple relevant fields, this book shows readers how the system works, why it works this way, how it harms and often kills people and how we can fix it.
作者簡介
Cheryl L. Brown, DBA, RN, Nurse Consultant, Patient Safety US Army. Co-Author: Overcoming Benchmarking Reluctance: A Literature Review (Benchmarking: An International Journal, 2012). Dr. Brown reviews Root Cause Analysis’ of medical Sentinel Events, providing feedback to Army Patient Safety Managers for process improvement. She served 21 years as an Army Nurse and is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War. She contributed clinical expertise for a ground nurse character in the book “Centerline”.
John T. James, PhD, Founder and CEO of Patient Safety America; Retired Chief Toxicologist, Federal Agency; Diplomat, American Board of Toxicology; Project Director, GBCS Healthcare Justice Grant; Author: “A Sea of Broken Hearts.” Dr. James contributed book chapters to the National Academies Press, Springer, Elsevier, Lea & Febiger, and Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. He has published a monograph in the peer-reviewed Journal of Patient Safety in which he revised the estimated death toll from medical errors in hospitals, including hospital acquired infections and errors of omission, to more than 400,000 each year.
