British Medical Journal: "Medical Error Issue": TOC for 18 March 2000; Vol. 320, No. 7237

[janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all

this entire issue seems to be devoted to 'medical error' questions and solutions
i don't think i should post the whole thing [!}
but it looks very interesting to me

janet

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Editor's Choice
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Facing up to medical error
    

This Week in the BMJ
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Lower error rates in reading radiographs can be sustained by redesigning the 
system
    

Older people suffer more adverse events but they have more complex care
    

Healthcare staff deny effects of stress and tiredness
    

Portable computerised prescribing may reduce errors
    

Preventive home visits need improving
    

A system approach to reducing error works better than focusing on individuals
    

Editorials
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Safe health care: are we up to it?
     

Medical error: the second victim
     

Accreditation's role in reducing medical errors
     

Why error reporting systems should be voluntary
     

Let's talk about error
     

News
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MPs call for safeguards for people with personality disorder
    

Force feeding of Ian Brady declared lawful
    

Type 2 diabetes is a major drain on resources
    

Imitating Mickey Mouse can be dangerous
    

In brief
    

New standards set for abortion care
    

Another option for Down's syndrome screening available
    

Charity calls for help for people of Aral Sea area
    

Doctors develop new treatment for cystic fibrosis
    

UK juniors to debate pay offer
    

Rate of HIV transmission among Africans in UK "underestimated"
    

Adding fatty acids to baby milk improves development
    

US drug companies announce vaccine initiative
    

Transplanted pancreatic stem cells can reverse diabetes in mice
    

News Extra
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Coeliac disease specific antigen found
    

Doctors develop new treatment for cystic fibrosis
    

Irish government sets up inquiry into retained body organs
    

UK junior doctors will debate improved pay offer
    

Listen to patients, urges mental health report
    

Sex: when less means more
    

Papers
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Reducing errors made by emergency physicians in interpreting radiographs: 
longitudinal study
     

Incidence and types of preventable adverse events in elderly patients:
     

Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys
     

Implementation of rules based computerised bedside prescribing and 
administration
     

General Practice
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Effects of preventive home visits to elderly people living in the community
     

Clinical Review
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Reporting and preventing medical mishaps: lessons from non-medical near miss 
reporting systems
     

ABC of arterial and venous disease: Acute limb ischaemia
     

Education and Debate
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Human error: models and management
     

System changes to improve patient safety
     

Epidemiology of medical error
     

How to investigate and analyse clinical incidents
     

On error management: lessons from aviation
     

Anaesthesiology as a model for patient safety in health care
     

Using information technology to reduce rates of medication errors in hospitals
     

Gaps in the continuity of care and progress on patient safety
     

Detecting and reporting medical errors: why the dilemma?
     

Website of the week: Error in medicine
     
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