Title Patient safety and healthcare improvement at a glance / edited by Sukhmeet S. Panesar, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Sarah A. Salvilla, Aziz Sheikh

Published Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Part 1. The Essence of Patient Safety -- 1. Basics of patient safety -- 2. Understanding systems -- 3. Quality and safety -- 4. Human factors -- 5. Teamwork and communication -- 6. Reporting and learning from errors -- 7. Research in patient safety -- Part 2. Understanding and Interpreting Risk -- 8. Risk-based patient safety metrics -- 9. Root cause analysis -- 10. Measuring safety culture -- Part 3. Risks to Patient Care -- 11. Medication errors -- 12. Surgical errors -- 13. Diagnostic errors -- 14. Maternal and child health errors -- 15. Slips, trips and falls -- 16. Patient safety in paediatrics -- 17. Technology in healthcare and e-iatrogenesis -- 18. Nosocomial infections -- 19. Mental health errors -- 20. Patient safety in primary care -- Part 4. Quality Improvement -- 21. Improving the quality of clinical care -- 22. Science of improvement -- 23. Model for Improvement -- 24. Measurement for improvement -- 25. Spread and sustainability of improvement -- 26. Quality improvement tools: visualisation -- 27. Quality improvement: assessing the system -- 28. Patient stories in improvement -- 29. Leading change in healthcare -- 30. Public narrative: story of self, us and now -- 31. Planning an improvement project -- 32. Managing an improvement project -- 33. Quality improvement in psychiatry -- 34. Quality improvement in intensive care -- 35. Quality improvement in obstetrics -- 36. Quality improvement in surgery -- 37. Population health and improvement Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Medical errors -- Prevention. Medical Errors -- prevention & control. Patient Safety -- standards. Quality of Health Care -- standards. Safety Management. Form Electronic book Author Carson-Stevens, Andrew, editor Panesar, Sukhmeet S., editor Salvilla, Sarah A., editor Sheikh, Aziz, editor LC no. 2014009509 ISBN 1118361350 (pdf) 1118899369 (epub) 9781118361351 (pdf) 9781118899366 (epub) (paperback)

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