Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on the contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Addressing management mistakes in healthcare
- Part II Case studies of mistakes in healthcare management
- 7 Medical errors: Paradise Hills Medical Center
- 8 Nursing shortage: Metropolitan Community Hospital
- 9 Information technology setback: Heartland Healthcare System
- 10 Inept strategic planning: Southwestern Regional Healthcare System
- 11 Public relations fiasco, George C. Fremont Community Hospital
- 12 Ineffectual governance: Pleasant Valley Regional Health System
- 13 Failed hospital merger: Richland River Valley Healthcare System
- 14 UK review of selected cases
- 15 Lessons learned: insights and admonitions
- Suggested further reading
- Index
- References
7 - Medical errors: Paradise Hills Medical Center
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on the contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Addressing management mistakes in healthcare
- Part II Case studies of mistakes in healthcare management
- 7 Medical errors: Paradise Hills Medical Center
- 8 Nursing shortage: Metropolitan Community Hospital
- 9 Information technology setback: Heartland Healthcare System
- 10 Inept strategic planning: Southwestern Regional Healthcare System
- 11 Public relations fiasco, George C. Fremont Community Hospital
- 12 Ineffectual governance: Pleasant Valley Regional Health System
- 13 Failed hospital merger: Richland River Valley Healthcare System
- 14 UK review of selected cases
- 15 Lessons learned: insights and admonitions
- Suggested further reading
- Index
- References
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- Management Mistakes in HealthcareIdentification, Correction, and Prevention, pp. 119 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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