Patient Safety

Patient safety is of fundamental importance to all healthcare systems. Errors are common and patients are frequently harmed. Doctors, nurses, healthcare managers, policy makers and governments across the world are now working to improve the safety of healthcare. This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of this rapidly developing field. The book takes an international perspective citing research and practice from the UK, US, Europe, Australasia and other countries. The book will be valuable for clinical staff who want to understand patient safety and make their own unit safer; patient safety managers, risk managers, medical directors; policy makers seeking to understand the risks posed by their healthcare systems; students and doctors and nurses in training.

ISBN 0443101205   Pages 268 ISBN13 9780443101205 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences   Weight (grammes) 1000 Imprint Churchill Livingstone   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 11 Nov 2005   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2005049671   Spine width (mm) 12 DEWEY 610   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Medical harm : a brief history		1
2		The evolution of patient safety		13
3		Studies of errors and adverse events in healthcare : the nature and scale of the problem		33
4		Reporting and learning systems		57
5		Human error and systems thinking		75
6		Understanding how things go wrong		99
7		The aftermath : caring for patients harmed by treatment		123
8		Supporting staff after serious incidents		139
9		Culture and leadership for safety		153
10		Making healthcare safer : clinical interventions and process improvement		179
11		Using information technology to reduce error		195
12		People create safety		213

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