Patient safety

When you are ready to implement measures to improve patient safety, this is the book to consult. Charles Vincent, one of the world's pioneers in patient safety, discusses each and every aspect clearly and compellingly. He reviews the evidence of risks and harms to patients, and he provides prac...

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Main Author: Vincent, Charles (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex Wiley-Blackwell 2010
Edition:SECOND EDITION
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Table of Contents:
  • Medical harm : a brief history
  • The emergence of patient safety
  • Integrating safety and quality
  • The nature and scale of error and harm
  • Reporting and learning systems
  • Measuring safety
  • Human error and systems thinking
  • Understanding how things go wrong
  • Caring for patients harmed by treatment
  • Supporting staff after serious incidents
  • Clinical interventions and 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.