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 (Author), Sujan, Mark-Alexander (Author), Cross, Stephen (Author), Flanagan, Hugh (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Security systems.
Public health administration.
Practice of medicine.
Hospitals > Administration.
Biomedical engineering.
Security Science and Technology.
Health Administration.
Practice and Hospital Management.
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.
Online Access:Full-text access
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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