Patient Safety: A Case-Based Comprehensive Guide

✍ Scribed by Dea M. Hughes M.P.H (auth.), Abha Agrawal (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 412
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Despite the evolution and growing awareness of patient safety, many medical professionals are not a part of this important conversation. Clinicians often believe they are too busy taking care of patients to adopt and implement patient safety initiatives and that acknowledging medical errors is an affront to their skills.

Patient Safety provides clinicians with a better understanding of the prevalence, causes and solutions for medical errors; bringing best practice principles to the bedside. Written by experts from a variety of backgrounds, each chapter features an analysis of clinical cases based on the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodology, along with case-based discussions on various patient safety topics. The systems and processes outlined in the book are general and broadly applicable to institutions of all sizes and structures.

The core ethic of medical professionals is to “do no harm”. Patient Safety is a comprehensive resource for physicians, nurses and students, as well as healthcare leaders and administrators for identifying, solving and preventing medical error.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Patient Identification....Pages 3-18
Teamwork and Communication....Pages 19-33
Handoff and Care Transitions....Pages 35-51
Graduate Medical Education and Patient Safety....Pages 53-68
Electronic Health Record and Patient Safety....Pages 69-86
Clinical Ethics and Patient Safety....Pages 87-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Medication Error....Pages 103-114
Medication Reconciliation Error....Pages 115-127
Retained Surgical Items....Pages 129-143
Wrong-Site Surgery....Pages 145-159
Transfusion-Related Hazards....Pages 161-178
Hospital-Acquired Infections....Pages 179-195
Hospital Falls....Pages 197-210
Pressure Ulcers....Pages 211-230
Diagnostic Error....Pages 231-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Patient Safety in Pediatrics....Pages 249-262
Patient Safety in Radiology....Pages 263-279
Patient Safety in Anesthesia....Pages 281-293
Patient Safety in Behavioral Health....Pages 295-310
Patient Safety in Outpatient Care....Pages 311-325
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Error Disclosure....Pages 329-340
The Culture of Safety....Pages 341-353
Second Victim....Pages 355-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-394

✦ Subjects

Practice Management; General Practice / Family Medicine; Primary Care Medicine; Health Informatics