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First, do less harm : confronting the inconvenient problems of patient safety /
Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Culture and politics of health care work.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1. The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me ; 2. Too Mean to Clean: How We Forgot to Clean Our Hospitals ; 3. What Goes without Saying in Patient Safety ; 4. Health Care Information Technology to the Rescue ; 5. A Day in the Life of a Nurse; 6. Excluded Actors in Patient Safety; 7. Nursing as Patient Safety Net: Systems Issues and Future Directions ; 8. Physicians, Sleep Deprivation, and Safety ; 9. Sleep-deprived Nurses: Sleepand Schedule Challenges in Nursing; 10. Wounds That Don't Heal: Nurses' Experience with Medication Errors.
- 11. On Teams, Teamwork, and Team Intelligence Conclusion: Twenty-seven Paradoxes, Ironies, and Challenges of Patient Safety ; Notes; Contributors; Index.