Patient Safety, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-1-4051-9221-7
Paperback
432 pages
July 2010, BMJ Books
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Preface ix
The nature of the book xi
Inspiration acknowledgements and thanks xiii
Section One The Evolution of Patient Safety
Chapter 1 Medical harm: a brief history 3
Chapter 2 The emergence of patient safety 14
Chapter 3 Integrating safety and quality 31
Section Two The Hazards of Healthcare
Chapter 4 The nature and scale of error and harm 49
Chapter 5 Reporting and learning systems 75
Chapter 6 Measuring safety 96
Section Three From Accident Analysis to System Design
Chapter 7 Human error and systems thinking 119
Chapter 8 Understanding how things go wrong 141
Section Four The Aftermath
Chapter 9 Caring for patients harmed by treatment 171
Chapter 10 Supporting staff after serious incidents 192
Section Five Design Technology and Standardization
Chapter 11 Clinical interventions and process improvement 211
Chapter 12 Design for patient safety 230
Chapter 13 Using information technology to reduce error 246
Section Six People Create Safety
Chapter 14 Creating a culture of safety 269
Chapter 15 Patient involvement in patient safety 290
Chapter 16 Procedures violations and migrations 307
Chapter 17 Safety skills 321
Chapter 18 Teams create safety 341
Section Seven The Journey to Safety
Chapter 19 Safe organizations: bringing it all together 371
Chapter 20 High performing healthcare systems 390
Index 405