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• Title:Understanding patient safety / Robert M. Wachter.
  
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• Author/Creator:Wachter, Robert M.
  
• Published/Created:New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Medical, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB100 .W114 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Medical errors--Prevention.
  Patients--Safety measures.
  Medicine--Practice--Safety measures.
  
• Medical Subjects:Medical Errors--prevention & control.
  Safety Management--methods.
  
• Description:xix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:"Understanding Patient Safety is the essential book for anyone seeking to learn the key clinical, organizational, and systems issues in patient safety. Written in a lively and accessible style by one of the world's leaders in the fields of patient safety and quality, Understanding Patient Safety is filled with valuable cases and analyses, as well as up-to-date tables, graphics, references and tools - all designed to introduce the patient safety field to medical, nursing, pharmacy, hospital administration and other trainees, and to be the go-to book for experienced clinicians and non-clinicians alike."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780071482776 (alk. paper)
  0071482776 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Sect. I. Introduction to Patient Safety and Medical Errors
  Ch. 1. Nature and Frequency of Medical Errors and Adverse Events
  Ch. 2. Basic Principles of Patient Safety
  Ch. 3. Safety Versus Quality
  Sect. II. Types of Medical Errors
  Ch. 4. Medication Errors
  Ch. 5. Surgical Errors
  Ch. 6. Diagnostic Errors
  Ch. 7. Human Factors and Errors at the Person-Machine Interface
  Ch. 8. Transition and Handoff Errors
  Ch. 9. Teamwork and Communication Errors
  Ch. 10. Nosocomial Infections
  Ch. 11. Other Complications of Healthcare
  Ch. 12. Patient Safety in the Ambulatory Setting
  Sect. III. Solutions
  Ch. 13. Information Technology
  Ch. 14. Reporting Systems, Incident Investigations, and Other Methods of Understanding Safety Issues
  Ch. 15. Creating a Culture of Safety
  Ch. 16. Workforce Issues
  Ch. 17. Training Issues
  Ch. 18. Malpractice System
  Ch. 19. Accountability
  Ch. 20. Laws and Regulations
  Ch. 21. Role of Patients
  Ch. 22. Organizing a Safety Program
  App. I. Key Books, Reports, Series, and Web Sites on Patient Safety
  App. II. Glossary of Selected Terms in Patient Safety
  App. III. Selected Milestones in the Field of Patient Safety
  App. IV. Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals (Hospital Version, 2007)
  App. V. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs)
  App. VI. National Quality Forum's List of 28 "Never Events"
  App. VII. Things Patients and Families Can Do, and Questions They Can Ask, to Improve Their Chances of Remaining Safe in the Hospital.