Medical harm : a brief history -- The emergence of patient safety -- Integrating of safety and quality -- The nature and scale of error and harm -- Reporting & learning systems -- Measuring safety -- Human error & systems thinking -- Understanding how things go wrong -- Caring for patients harmed by treatment -- Supporting staff after serious incidents -- Clinical interventions & process improvement -- Design for patient safety -- Using information technology to reduce error -- Creating a culture of safety -- Patient involvement in patient safety -- Procedures, violations, and migrations -- Safety skills -- Teams create safety -- Safe organisations : bringing it all together -- High performing healthcare systems
Summary
Patient safety, at its simplest, is the attempt to understand, reduce and ameliorate the harm to patients caused by healthcare rather than disease. This new edition will:. Have an even stronger practical emphasis on what can be done to improve the safety of healthcare. The first edition contained four chapters on these themes, whereas the second will have seven. Include a greatly expanded discussion of team based initiatives. Provide experiences of transforming whole organisations and health economies to bring safer care to patients