Patient Safety

Patient safety, at its simplest, is the attempt to understand, reduce and ameliorate the harm to patients caused by healthcare rather than disease. This new edition will: Have an even stronger practical emphasis on what can be done to improve the safety of healthcare. The first edition contained four chapters on these themes, whereas the second will have seven Include a greatly expanded discussion of team based initiatives Provide experiences of transforming whole organisations and health economies to bring safer care to patients. CONTENTS Section 1 The evolution of patient safety 1. Medical harm – a brief history 2. The emergence of patient safety 3. Integrating of safety and quality Section 2 The hazards of healthcare 4. The nature and scale of error and harm 5. Reporting & learning systems 6. Measuring safety Section 3 From accident analysis to system design 7. Human error & systems thinking 8. Understanding how things go wrong Section 4 The Aftermath 9. Caring for patients harmed by treatment 10. Supporting staff after serious incidents Section 5 Design, technology & standardisation 11. Clinical Interventions & Process Improvement 12. Design for patient safety 13. Using information technology to reduce error Section 6 People create safety 14. Creating a culture of safety 15. Patient involvement in patient safety 16. Procedures, violations and migrations 17. Safety skills 18. Teams create safety Section 7 The Journey to Safety 19. Safe organisations. Bringing it all together 20. High performing healthcare systems