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Epidemic of medical errors and hospital-acquired infections: systemic and social causes

机译：医疗错误和医院获得性感染的流行：系统和社会原因

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'One of the premises of this book is to take a look at the problem of medical errors and hospital acquired infections not necessarily from a clinical perspective but from a social science and political framework' (p. 4) and it does just that. When the authors are discussing the delivery of healthcare and the things that can go wrong they do include an explanation of diseases and how they are transmitted; therefore, you do not have to be a healthcare professional to understand the content. For those who are obsessed with numbers there are plenty of statistics, predominantly from America, although Canada, British Columbia and the United Kingdom are also cited. The author tells the reader that 'the statistics put forth are both alarming and inaccurate'. They say that medical errors are severely under-reported in a fear-based culture, which they go on to discuss at length. The book begins with discussing medical errors and hospital-acquired infections, which is what the reader would expect; however, part way through a chapter about diseases such as clostridium difficile and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, it suddenly starts talking about falls, which was rather confusing. There are a total of 19 chapters in the book, however, they could be broken down further to include: infection control, working conditions, error, a blame and shame culture, and bariatrics or, as the authors refer to them, as a 'special population as well as some political views'. Indeed, the writers are not afraid to blame government and lack of funding for the inability to sufficiently reduce medical errors and hospital-acquired infections.
机译：“本书的前提之一是，不一定从临床角度而是从社会科学和政治框架来研究医学错误和医院获得性感染的问题”（第4页）。当作者讨论医疗保健的提供和可能出错的问题时，他们的确包括对疾病及其传播方式的解释；因此，您不必是医疗保健专业人员即可了解其内容。对于那些痴迷于数字的人，尽管有加拿大，不列颠哥伦比亚省和英国，但也有大量的统计数据，主要来自美国。作者告诉读者，“提出的统计数字既令人震惊又不准确”。他们说，在基于恐惧的文化中，医疗错误的报告严重不足，因此他们继续详细讨论。这本书首先讨论了医疗错误和医院获得的感染，这正是读者的期望。然而，在有关艰难梭菌和耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌等疾病的一章中，它突然开始谈论跌倒，这相当令人困惑。该书共有19章，但可以进一步细分为以下内容：感染控制，工作条件，错误，非理性和耻辱文化以及减肥术，或者如作者所称，特殊人群以及一些政治观点”。的确，作家们不怕因无法充分减少医疗错误和医院获得的感染而怪罪政府，也缺乏资金。

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    《Ergonomics》 |2014年第12期|1933-1934|共2页
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    Liz Leigh;

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    Manual Handling Adviser/Ergonomist, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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