Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety

Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety
ISBN-10
1118001567
ISBN-13
9781118001561
Category
Medical
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
2011-02-25
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Author
Patrice L. Spath

Description

Error Reduction in Health Care Completely revised and updated, this second edition of Error Reduction in Health Care offers a step-by-step guide for implementing the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine to reduce the frequency of errors in health care services and to mitigate the impact of errors when they do occur. With contributions from noted leaders in health safety, Error Reduction in Health Care provides information on analyzing accidents and shows how systematic methods can be used to understand hazards before accidents occur. In the chapters, authors explore how to prioritize risks to accurately focus efforts in a systems redesign, including performance measures and human factors. This expanded edition covers contemporary material on innovative patient safety topics such as applying Lean principles to reduce mistakes, opportunity analysis, deductive adverse event investigation, improving safety through collaboration with patients and families, using technology for patient safety improvements, medication safety, and high reliability organizations. The Editor

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