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Patient Safety and Healthcare Improvement at a Glance
Sukhmeet Panesar (Author), Andrew Carson-Stevens (Author), Sarah Salvilla (Author), Aziz Sheikh (Author)
9781118361368, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 22 August 2014
144 pages
26.7 x 21.1 x 0.8 cm, 0.408 kg
Patient Safety and Healthcare Improvement at a Glance is a timely and thorough overview of healthcare quality written specifically for students and junior doctors and healthcare professionals. It bridges the gap between the practical and the theoretical to ensure the safety and wellbeing of patients. Featuring essential step-by-step guides to interpreting and managing risk, quality improvement within clinical specialties, and practice development, this highly visual textbook offers the best preparation for the increased emphasis on patient safety and quality-driven focus in today’s healthcare environment. Healthcare Improvement and Safety at a Glance: This practical guide, covering a vital topic of increasing importance in healthcare, provides the first genuine introduction to patient safety and quality improvement grounded in clinical practice.
• Maps out and follows the World Health Organization Patient Safety curriculum
• Draws upon the quality improvement work of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Contributors vii Preface xi Acknowledgements xii How to use your revision guide xiii Part 1 The essence of patient safety 1 1 Basics of patient safety 2 2 Understanding systems 4 3 Quality and safety 6 4 Human factors 8 5 Teamwork and communication 12 6 Reporting and learning from errors 14 7 Research in patient safety 16 Part 2 Understanding and interpreting risk 19 8 Risk-based patient safety metrics 20 9 Root cause analysis 24 10 Measuring safety culture 26 Part 3 Risks to patient care 31 11 Medication errors 32 12 Surgical errors 36 13 Diagnostic errors 40 14 Maternal and child health errors 44 15 Slips, trips and falls 47 16 Patient safety in paediatrics 50 17 Technology in healthcare and e-iatrogenesis 54 18 Nosocomial infections 58 19 Mental health errors 60 20 Patient safety in primary care 64 Part 4 Quality improvement 67 21 Improving the quality of clinical care 68 22 Science of improvement 70 23 Model for Improvement 74 24 Measurement for improvement 78 25 Spread and sustainability of improvement 84 26 Quality improvement tools: visualisation 86 27 Quality improvement: assessing the system 88 28 Patient stories in improvement 90 29 Leading change in healthcare 92 30 Public narrative: story of self, us and now 96 31 Planning an improvement project 98 32 Managing an improvement project 100 33 Quality improvement in psychiatry 104 34 Quality improvement in intensive care 106 35 Quality improvement in obstetrics 108 36 Quality improvement in surgery 110 37 Population health and improvement 112 Further reading 114 Index 121
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Subject Areas: Medical study & revision guides & reference material [MR]
