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Building Safer Healthcare Systems A Proactive, Risk Based Approach to Improving Patient Safety

This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform. Departing from the priorities applied in traditional approaches, it instead assesses – both theoretically and practically – the successful lessons learned in other safety-critical industries, and applies them to healthcare settings. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Spurgeon, Peter, Sujan, Mark-Alexander (Author), Cross, Stephen (Author), Flanagan, Hugh (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Subjects:
Health Administration
Security Science And Technology
Practice Of Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
Public Health Administration
Security Systems
Biomedical Engineering And Bioengineering
Hospitals / Administration
Practice And Hospital Management
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Continuing Issues of Patient Safety: Data on the Nature and Persistence of Harm, Limitation of Current Approaches
  • Proactive Search for Risk: Lessons From Other Safety Critical Industries
  • Human Factors – Human Error and Beyond, Performance Influencing Factors, Systems Thinking, High Reliability Organisations
  • Patient Safety Culture – Measurement and Implications
  • The Safer Clinical Systems Programme
  • The 5 steps of the Safer Clinical Systems approach
  • Improving the Safety of Handover and Communication
  • Next steps towards a proactive, risk based approach to improving patient safety in the health sector.

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