With medication errors in healthcare an internationally recognised problem, this much-needed book delivers a comprehensive approach to understanding medication safety in the perioperative period. It reviews what medication adverse events are, and how often and where these errors occur, as well as exploring human cognitive psychology and explaining why things can go wrong at any time in a complex system. Detailed discussions around mistakes, judgement errors, slips and lapses, and violation...

There is an understandable tendency or desire to attribute blame when patients are harmed by their own healthcare. However, many cases of iatrogenic harm involve little or no moral culpability. Even when blame is justified, an undue focus on one individual often deflects attention from other important factors within the inherent complexity of modern healthcare. This revised second edition advocates a rethinking of accountability in healthcare based on science, the principles of a just cult...

As more and more people survive into old age, the burden of caring for them becomes greater and greater. Although it is now possible to alleviate many of the afflictions that beset mankind, no society can afford to pay for all the healthcare that is now available or technically possible. People working in healthcare increasingly have to do more with less. Rationing takes many forms, mostly covert, and the less privileged in most societies end up struggling to get their proper share of the ...

This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their own academic areas of interest, are experienced scholars and classroom teachers. Uniting them together in this volume is their professional relationship with Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012). This...

It's Christmas day and Kev runs into a few problems.(Kev's full name is Kogel/Evel Vitek 997: Hunter/Killer Android 997. Kev wasn't born. The Apfer created him from biologically engineered cells. Kev had been created, along with 1023 comrades, to fight the Krllk. The Krllk were an evolved-insect race that had threatened an entire galaxy. In order to defeat the Krllk before they wiped out all other sentient life in the galaxy, the Apfer had created enough warriors and enough advanced...

Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce star as Mr. and Mrs. Piper, a couple of sensible suburban residents who find the fun in every day family life. Stop in for a visit as they prepare for the holidays, navigate minor mysteries, and weather the fallout from honest mistakes.Margaret Hamilton co-stars as Aunt Effie in these charming, chuckle-filled episodes written by series star (and creator) Peg Lynch.Episodes Include: The Family Portrait is Taken 12-05-58; Mr. Piper's Day in Court 12-08-58; Post Offic...