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Patient safety /
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 fo...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.