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Title Washington Manual of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement / editors Emily Fondahn, Michael Lane, Andrea Vannucci
Published Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (514 pages)
Series Lippincott Manual Series
Lippincott Manual Series
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contributors; Preface; Chairman's Note; Contents; 1 Introduction to Patient Safety and Quality Improvement; Patient Safety; Quality Improvement; History of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement; Learning from Industry; Transforming Medicine into a High Reliability Organizations; Error Identification and Classification; The Future of Safety and Quality; Conclusion; SECTION 1 Quality; 2 Introduction to Quality Improvement; System of Profound Knowledge; Improving Quality in Health Care; Methods of Quality Improvement Used in Health Care
Components of a Quality Improvement ProjectConducting a Quality Improvement Project; Measuring Quality; Quality Improvement versus Clinical Research; The Business Case for Quality Improvement; 3 Building High Reliability in the Health Care System; High Reliability Organizations; Creating an Infrastructure for Quality; Managing a Complex System; 4 Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Tools; Science of Quality Improvement; Tools for Developing a Change: The Model for Improvement; Testing the Change: Plan, Do, Study, Act Cycle or PDSA Cycle; Tools for Monitoring Data
Alternative Approaches to QI Projects5 Models for Quality; Six Sigma; LEAN; Difficulties and Limitations of Six Sigma and Lean in Health Care; 6 Accountability and Reporting; Accountability; Regulatory Agencies, National Organizations, and their Requirements; Laws and Policies; 7 Healthcare Information Technology; HIT and Clinical Decision Support Systems; HIT and Adverse HIT Events (E-Iatrogenesis); HIT and Quality Measurement; HIT Work Force Transformation; Conclusion; 8 Preventable Harm; Preventable Harm; Venous Thromboembolism; Falls; Pressure Ulcers; Conclusion
9 Health Care-Associated InfectionsPrevention of Health Care-Associated Infections; Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections; Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections; Ventilator-Associated Events; Surgical Site Infections; Clostridium difficile; 10 Coding and Documentation; Principles of Quality Documentation; Documentation as a Quality Component; Documentation as a Troubleshooting Tool; SECTION 2 Patient Safety; 11 Introduction to Patient Safety; Patient Safety Models; Error Definitions; Conclusion; 12 Culture of Safety; Establishing a "Just Culture."
Tools for Assessing Patient Safety CultureAHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture; Patient Safety Climates and Safety Attitudes Questionnaires; Creating a Culture of Safety Through Error Reporting; Learning from Errors; Spreading and Sustaining Change; 13 Event Analysis; What to Do If an Error Occurs; Classification of Events; Root Cause Analysis; Crisis Management; Role of Risk Management; 14 Disclosure of Adverse Events and Medical Errors: Supporting the Patient, the Family, and the Provider; The Rationale for Disclosure; The Process of Disclosure; Caring for the Second Victim
Notes Clinical Vignette Revisited
English
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Subject Patient Safety
Form Electronic book
Author Fondahn, Emily, editor
De Fer, Thomas M., series editor.
Lane, Michael, editor
Vannucci, Andrea, editor
ISBN 9781469885377
1469885379