Error and risk reduction
By: Debora Simmons Bennett, guest editior.
Contributors: Prevost, Suzanne S.
Series: Critical care nursing clinics of North America -- v.14, no.4
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
Subjects: Medical errors -- Prevention; Medical care -- Safety measures
Notes: "December 2002"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A teamwork model to promote patient safety in critical care / Gwen Sherwood ... [et al.]; title: Engaging nurses in patient safety / Katharine M. Luther ... [et al.]; title: Proactive error prevention in the intensive care unit / Kathryn M. Vande Voorde, Anne-Claire France; title: Multidisciplinary approaches to reducing error and risk in a patient care setting / Maureen Connor, Patricia Reid Ponte, James Conway; title: Application of the 80/20 rule in safeguarding the use of high-alert medications / Hedy Cohen, Michelle M. Mandrack; title: Capturing error rates and reporting significant data / Anne W. Wojner; title: Everyday thoughts: harnessing the thought process toward a practical framework for increasing critical thinking and reducing error / Debora Simmons Bennett, Linda Dune; title: Trial and error in my quest to be a partner in my health care: a patient's story / Roxanne Goeltz, Martin J. Hatlie; title: Living at the sharp end: moral obligations of nurses in reporting and disclsoing errors in health care / Gretchen Aumann Kelley; title: Medical device error / Gerald R. Goodman; title: Nosocomial infections in intensive care patients / Virginia Kennedy ... [et al.]; title: Special considerations for the geriatric population / Cynthia Hall.