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! authored by a well-known physician and professor at the DeGroote School of Medicine in Ontario, Canada. Dr Jenicek begins with a review of human errors in general and then continues with a review of medical errors and the negative outcomes that follow ! . The author reviews the history of medical errors and definitions by using an epidemiologic approach. He starts with a review of errors that cause traffic accidents and industrial injuries. ! He also explores possible causes of medical errors, including human error or lapses in judgment and the rapid technologic growth currently observed in medicine, especially in the subspecialty areas. The author also presents numerous frameworks that can be used to identify the medical error type, possible causes, and various solutions. ! Finally, he discusses medical-legal consequences of errors and how tort law has evolved over time. --Shauna Ely Tarrac MSN, RN, CIC, CNOR, in the AORN Journal, April 2011 Jenicek makes a valiant effort to impose some order on the diverse nomenclature of lathology and delves into the difficult task of taxonomy of this subject. --John P. A. Ioannidis, in The Lancet

Jenicek makes a valiant effort to impose some order on the diverse nomenclature of lathology and delves into the difficult task of taxonomy of this subject. --John P. A. Ioannidis, writing in The Lancet

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McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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