Achieving Safe And Reliable Healthcare
Subtitle: Strategies And Solutions (Management Series)
Publisher: Health Administration Press
Published: September 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781567932270
Subjects: Medical care; Quality control; Medical; Health Care Delivery; Medical / Nursing; Prevention; Medical errors; Hospital Administration; Safety measures; Health facilities
First sentence: The rate of error and inadvertent harm throughout American healthcare is substantial and unacceptably high despite the existence of well-trained clinicians, the best technology, and the highest cost per capita health resources in the world (Resnick 2003).
Description: "Healthcare organizations have an epidemic on their hands: Medical error is causing as many as 98,000 deaths a year in the nation's hospitals. And these failures are not due to unqualified clinicians or the lack of technology - instead, evidence indicates that at least 80 percent of medical error is system derived, meaning that system flaws are setting good people up to fail." "Achieving Safe and Reliable Healthcare: Strategies and Solutions provides healthcare leaders with a blueprint for building and supporting a culture of patient safety. It includes contributions from experts who have created comprehensive and successful patient safety programs in their organizations."--BOOK JACKET.