The Patient Safety Handbook Barbara Youngberg, JD, BSN, MSW, Vice President,
University HealthSystem Consortium, Inc., Martin J. Hatlie, JD,
President, Partnership for Patient Safety
Hardcover: 779 pages
ISBN 0763731471
9780763731472
Jones & Bartlett
Copyright 2004 (click button below to check for the very best price available
for this title)
This comprehensive handbook
on patient safety and risk management reflects the goals of
many in the health care industry to advance the reliability of
health care systems worldwide.
The Patient Safety
Handbook offers practical guidance on implementing systems and
processes to improve outcomes and advance patient safety. Covering
the spectrum of patient safety and risk reduction, it builds from
the fundamentals of the science of safety, to a thorough discussion
of operational issues and the actual application of the principles
of research. This important and useful
book is devoted to highlighting the problem of preventable medical
error resulting in 98,000 deaths annually. It explores the
background of this problem and provides an understanding of the
delivery of health care and the modifications necessary to resolve
this problem.
Learn from other
high-reliability industries.
See how building a safe environment required leaders in the
commercial airline, nuclear power, and automobile industries to
challenge assumptions about their mission, core competencies,
market, technology, and structures of their organizations'
operations. Real-life case studies from
prominent health care organizations and their leadership help you
apply proven strategies to your patient safety program.
Create
a healing organizational culture.
Strategies are presented for refocusing your organization's
environment from a culture of blame to a culture of sustainable
change and trust that welcomes error detection and reporting as an
opportunity to improve patient care and patient safety.
Understand
why things go wrong. Learn
what is gained through the investigation and analysis of clinical
incidents, and benefit from the advice of noted experts as they
present strategies for moving forward.
Joint
Commission Standards defined.
An overview of the JCAHO standards for patient safety and
medical/health care error reduction helps you to interpret what the
standards mean for your organization and how to ensure that you are
compliant.
Utilize
the concepts of epidemiology. Apply
epidemiologic tools to augment your understanding of medical errors,
and complement traditional case examination approaches.
Benefit from
authoritative, hands-on guidance. Fulfill your commitment to
improved patient safety, risk reduction, and renewed health care
consumer confidence using the practical strategies outlined in this
comprehensive reference.
Sixty-nine
international specialists - mostly American - contribute 49
chapters examining the ongoing concerns and the search for solutions
to the problem of patient safety. The book provides the background
for seeing the context and the scope of the problem, and for
understanding the activities and practices of contemporary health
care which must be altered in order to create a consistently safe
environment for patients.
"This is the best
reference in patient safety available at this time. It should be of
interest to a broad audience, including physicians, pharmacists,
nurses, other healthcare providers, ethicists, policy-makers, and
legal experts interested in patient safety and healthcare quality.
It should be available to everyone interested in the patient safety
movement." William R. Hendee, PhD, Medical College of
Wisconsin
The chapters of this book include:
Understanding the First IOM Report
and Its Impact on Patient Safety
The Second Report on Safety from the
IOM: Crossing the Quality Chasm
Interpersonal Relationships: The
"Soft Stuff" of Patient Safety
An Organization Development
Framework for Transformation to a Culture of Safety
Toward a Philosophy of Patient
Safety: Expanding the Systems Approach to Medical Error
The Fallacy of the Body Count: Why
the Interest in Patient Safety and Why Now?
Fallacies on Counting Error
The Investigation and Analysis on
Clinical Incidents
Patient Safety and Errors Reduction
Standards
Applying Epidemiology in Patient
Safety
Patient Safety Is an Organizational
Systems Issue: Lessons from a Variety of Industries
Admitting Imperfection: Revelations
from the Cockpit for the World of Medicine
Reporting and Preventing Medical
Mishaps: Safety Lessons Learned from Nuclear Power
Trial and Error in My Quest to be a
Partner in My Healthcare
Health Care Literacy and Patient
Safety: The New Paradox
Using Root Cause Analysis to Analyze
Issues of Safety
The Leadership Role of the Chief
Operating Officer in Aligning Strategy and Operations
The Successful Quality Professional:
Framework, Attributes, and Roles
The Role of the Risk Manager in
Creating Patient Safety
Reducing Medical Errors: The Role of
the Physician
Engaging General Counsel in the
Pursuit of safety
Growing Nursing Leadership in the
Field of Patient Safety
Engaging the Board of Directors and
Creating a Governance Structure
Teamwork Communications and Training
Teamwork: The Fundamental Building
Block of High Reliability Organizations and Patient Safety
Moving Beyond Blame to Create an
Environment that Rewards Reporting
Addressing Clinician Performance
Problems as a Systems Issue
Advancing Patient Complaint and
Healthcare Worker Safety by Preventing Infections
The Baldridge Approach to Patient
Safety
Outlining the Business Case for
Patient Safety
The Economics of Patient Safety
The Role of Ethics and Ethics
Services in Patient Safety
What Can One Learn from the Canadian
Approach to Patient Safety?
How We Started Patient Safety in
Israel
Public Legislation and Professional
Self-Regulation: Quality and Safety Efforts in Norwegian Health
Care
The Handling of a Catastrophic
Medical Error Event: A Case Study
Why, What, and How Ought Harmed
Parties be Told? The Art, Mechanics, and Ambiguities
Disclosure of Medical Error:
Liability, Insurance, and Risk Management Implications
Medical Error and Patient Safety:
Communicating with the Media
Using Best Practices to Improve
Medication Safety
Improving the Safety of the
Medication Use Process
Designing a Safer Systems for
Medications: A Case Study
One Organization's Advocacy Effort
for Error Prevention: Institute For Safe Medical Practices
The Role of the Laboratory in
Patient Safety
Partnership and Collaboration on
Patient Safety with Health Care Suppliers
Patient Safety Training and New
Technology
No-Fault Compensation for Medical
Injuries: Prospect for Error Prevention
The Criminalization of Health Care:
When is Medical Malpractice a Crime?
That Does the Leapfrog Group Portend
for Health Care Providers?
The Future of Patient Safety:
Reflections on History, the Data, and What it Will take to
Succeed
"The 69 international specialists who
contribute to the Patient Safety Handbook offer practical guidance
on implementing systems and processes to improve patient outcomes
and advance patient safety. The handbook covers the full spectrum of
patient safety and risk reduction, and discusses operational issues
and the actual application of the principles of research, building
upon the fundamentals of the science of safety...This book will find
a place on the shelves of all health care sciences libraries..."
--Mark Spasser, Chief, Library and Information Services/Associate
Professor, Jewish Hospital College of Nursing and Allied Health
Co-editors
are Barbara Youngberg, JD, BSN, MSW, Vice President,
University HealthSystem Consortium, Inc., and Martin J. Hatlie,
JD, President, Partnership for Patient Safety.
This comprehensive handbook
on patient safety and risk management reflects the goals of
many in the health care industry to advance the reliability of
health care systems worldwide.
