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This introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics within the field of patient safety. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the author focuses on generic issues whilst providing practical clinical examples to illustrate the theory.
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 and learning systems Measuring safety Human error and systems thinking Understanding how things go wrong Caring fo…
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…
The aim of this work is to reduce the risks of medical treatment and enhance the safety of patients in all areas of healthcare. The first section discusses the incidence of harm to patients, while other sections examine features of the healthcare systems that are essential to sa…
Annotation The aim of this book is to reduce the risks of medical treatment and enhance the safety of patients in all areas of healthcare. The first section discusses human error, the incidence of harm to patients, and the development or risk management. Chapters in the second s…