"Silent For Too Long The Patient's Guide to Preventing Medical Errors" Medical Executive Exposes the Inside View Karin Janine Berntsen -RN, BSN, Patient Safety Executive, Legal Consultant website: PreventingMedicalErrors.com The book is now available and is listed with the National Patient Safety Foundation Hardcover: 288 pages ISBN 0275982300 Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT and London Available today at: Praeger Publishing -235 Life-Saving Tips -A Complete Book on Patient Safety for the Patient -Real Life Stories -Inside, Indepth, System Wide Solutions -A Must Read, Life- Saver Medical Errors in Children. Dangers of Look Alike Drugs with new Photos. Cost of Medical Errors on Health Care. Are the Patients Being Asked? Tort Reform Disclosure Communication Failures Selecting a Doctor. Patient Protection From Infections. Surveys for Patients on Medical Error Prevention. Use of Patients in Sentinel Event Reviews? Still Writing After All These Years. Need for Anesthesia Safety in Children Will New Electronic Tools Really Make Health Care Safer? Under Use of Human Factor Engineering in New Safety Designs. Lack of Legislative Efforts to Change the Equation of Harm. National Mandatory Adverse Event Data. High Risk Drugs Are Still High Risk. Should Peer Review Data be Protected Consumer Reports for Measuring Safe Hospitals. SMART Technologies, How They Will Talk to Each Other. How Far has Health Care Come in 5 Years? Dangerous Abbreviations Falls and Restraints Much more is covered in The Patient’s Guide to Preventing Medical Errors. The book details over 200 life-saving, patient directed tips for improving patient safety. "Pam Pohly’s Book Reviews" Hardcover: 288 pages ISBN 0275982300 Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT and London Available today at: Praeger Publishing ABOUT THE AUTHOR Karin Janine Berntsen is a health care executive and registered nurse. Her roles have included Vice President of Patient Safety and Director of Nursing. Key components of her roles in large health care systems have been to review medical errors, promote error prevention and enhance patient safety, including the use of technology and quality improvements. Ms. Berntsen is currently the President of PreventingMedicalErrors.com. PME’s mission is to improve patient safety through the formulation of patient-professional partnerships that promote safer health care system designs. Karin is a seasoned speaker and presents on the topics discussed in her latest book, The Patient’s Guide to Preventing Medical Errors - Praeger Publishing Group, Westport CT and London. Please contact Ms. Berntsen at preventingmedicalerrors@cox.net or 619 302-9764. email: preventingmedicalerrors@cox.net tel: (619) 302 - 9764 Remember we are NOT Doctors and have NO medical training. This site is like an Encylopedia - there are many pages, many links on many topics. Support our work with any size DONATION - see left side of any page - for how to donate. You can help raise awareness of CAM.