Research Catalog

Title

Reliability technology, human error, and quality in health care / B.S. Dhillon.

Author

Dhillon, B. S. (Balbir S.), 1947-

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

xv, 193 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"The effective and interrelated functioning of system reliability technology, human factors, and quality play an important role in the appropriate, efficient, and cost-effective delivery of health care. Simply put, it can save you time, money, and more importantly, lives. Over the years a large number of journal and conference proceedings articles on these topics have been published, but there are only a small number of books written on each individual topic, and virtually none that brings the pieces together into a unified whole, Pulling information from different sources into one comprehensive book, Reliability Technology, Human Error, and Quality in Health Care eliminates the need to pick through journal articles, online databases, and conference proceedings to obtain information that can affect your bottom line."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Medical instruments and apparatus > Safety measures
• Quality of Health Care
• Models, Statistical
• Risk Management
• Medical Errors
• Medical care > Quality control
• Medical errors
• Equipment Safety
• Reliability (Engineering)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-189) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Basic Mathematical Concepts -- Ch. 3. Introduction to Reliability Technology, Human Error, and Quality -- Ch. 4. Medical Device Safety and Quality Assurance -- Ch. 5. Medical Device Software Quality Assurance and Risk Assessment -- Ch. 6. Medical Device Maintenance and Sources for Obtaining Medical Device-Related Failure Data -- Ch. 7. Human Error in Health Care -- Ch. 8. Health Care Human Error Reporting Systems and Models for Predicting Human Reliability and Error in Health Care -- Ch. 9. Patient Safety -- Ch. 10. Introduction to Quality in Health Care -- Ch. 11. Quality Methods for Use in Health Care.

ISBN

• 9781420065589 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1420065580 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007048968

OCLC

• ocn182913233
• 182913233
• SCSB-5395690

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries