Understanding patient safety
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
McGraw-Hill Medical,
c2008.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- The nature and frequency of medical errors and adverse events
- Basic principles of patient safety
- Safety versus quality
- Medication errors
- Surgical errors
- Diagnostic errors
- Human factors and errors at the person-machine interface
- Transition and handoff errors
- Teamwork and communication errors
- Nosocomial infections
- Other complications of healthcare
- Patient safety in the ambulatory setting
- Information technology
- Reporting systems, incident investigations, and other methods of understanding safety issues
- Creating a culture of safety
- Workforce issues
- Training issues
- The malpractice system
- Accountability
- Law and regulations
- The role of patients
- Organizing a safety program.