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Author Vincent, Charles, Dr.

Title Patient safety / Charles Vincent
Edition 2nd ed
Published Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 416 pages)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Medical errors.
Iatrogenic diseases.
Hospitals -- Safety measures
Patient Care -- standards
Quality of Health Care -- standards
Medical Errors -- prevention & control
Safety Management -- standards
Medical Errors
Iatrogenic Disease
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Biomedical.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Medical Technology.
MEDICAL -- Biotechnology.
MEDICAL -- Lasers in Medicine.
Hospitals -- Safety measures
Iatrogenic diseases
Medical errors
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010003436
ISBN 9781444323863
1444323865
9781444348071
1444348078
1405192216
9781405192217