Patient Safety A Case-based Innovative Playbook for Safer Care

This book aims to serve as a playbook and a guide for the creation of a safer healthcare system in the contemporary healthcare ecosystem. It meets this goal through examinations of clinical case studies that illustrate core principles of patient safety, coverage of a broad range of medical errors in...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Agrawal, Abha (Editor), Bhatt, Jay (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2023, 2023
Edition:2nd ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • High Reliability in Healthcare
  • Health Equity: A key aspect of patient safety
  • The culture of safety
  • Human factors in patient safety
  • COVID-19 and patient safety
  • Patient identification
  • Teamwork and communication
  • Handoff and care transitions
  • EHR and patient safety
  • Clinical ethics and patient safety
  • Medication error
  • Wrong-site surgery
  • Hospital-acquired infections
  • Hospital falls
  • Diagnostic error
  • Opioid safety
  • Patient safety in pediatrics
  • Patient safety in radiology
  • Patient safety in anesthesia
  • Patient safety in behavioral health
  • Patient safety in outpatient care
  • Patient safety in long-term care and nursing homes
  • Patient safety in emergency department
  • International safety considerations
  • Communication and resolution
  • Second victim