Patient safety
By: Charles Vincent
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405192217
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medical harm : a brief history; title: The emergence of patient safety; title: Integrating of safety and quality; title: The nature and scale of error and harm; title: Reporting & learning systems; title: Measuring safety; title: Human error & systems thinking; title: Understanding how things go wrong; title: Caring for patients harmed by treatment; title: Supporting staff after serious incidents; title: Clinical interventions & process improvement; title: Design for patient safety; title: Using information technology to reduce error; title: Creating a culture of safety; title: Patient involvement in patient safety; title: Procedures, violations, and migrations; title: Safety skills; title: Teams create safety; title: Safe organisations : bringing it all together; title: High performing healthcare systems.