Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. The Error as a Parameter of Healthcare Quality
(Vasiliki Kapaki, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece)

Chapter 2. Pursuing Patient Safety through Researching and Reducing Diagnostic Errors and Applying a Systematic Approach to Diagnosis
(Ami Schattner, MD, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel)

Chapter 3. The Implementation of the Common Assessment Framework in Public Healthcare Organizations: Improving Patient Safety through Improvement of Organizational Performance
(Stella Korouli, Vasiliki Kapaki and Adamantia Egglezopoulou, MSc, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, and others)

Chapter 4. Patient Safety without Patient Advocacy Is Improbable, as They Are Synonymous: Is There a Theory-Practice-Ethics Gap?
(Manfred Mortell, PhD, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia)

Chapter 5. Air Embolism and Hypothermia Associated with Intravenous Fluid Therapy: Risk Management Considerations
(Nickolas A. MacDougall and Mark E. Comunale, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Colton, CA, US, and others)

Index