The Patient Safety Handbook
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Published: May 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 784
ISBN-13: 9780763731472
Subjects: Popular medicine; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects; United States; Medical / Nursing; Health & Fitness; Quality control; Health/Fitness; Nursing - Management & Leadership; Medical Errors; Administration; Hospital Administration; Medical / General; Handbooks, manuals, etc; prevention & control; General; Medical care
Description: This book was created out of the belief that the science of discovery must begin to move more rapidly toward the science of aplication. Its premise is that the focus on the number of medical errors (the estimate is that 98,000 patients die annually from preventible medical error), must give way to a committment to fix the problem. In this handbook the reader will be provided with some of the background that we believe is necessary to see the context and scope of the problem and to understand the activities and practices associated with the delivery of health care that must be modified if we are truly to create a consistently safe environment for patients.