Patient safety
Subtitle: an engineering approach
By: B.S. Dhillon
Publisher: Taylor & Francis; CRC Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781439873861
Subjects: Safety Management; Health Care Quality Assurance; Methods; Theoretical Models; Patient Care; Prevention & control; Equipment Safety; Medical Errors
Description: "Each year a vast sum of money is spent on health care around the globe and patient safety has become a serious global public health issue. Filled with up-to-date information, this book demonstrates how to handle patient safety-related problems by using methods developed in the area of engineering. It contains a chapter on mathematical concepts and another chapter on introductory material on safety and human factors considered essential to understand materials presented in subsequent chapters. The author's presentation covers topics in such a manner that readers will require no previous knowledge to understand the concepts"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.