Patient Safety
eBook - PDF

Patient Safety

A Human Factors Approach

  1. 262 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Patient Safety

A Human Factors Approach

About this book

Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Written from a scientific, human factors

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter 1: Medical Competence and Patient Safety
  6. Chapter 2: The Problem of “Human Error” in Healthcare
  7. Chapter 3: Cognitive Factors of Healthcare Work
  8. Chapter 4: New Technology, Automation, and Patient Safety
  9. Chapter 5: Safety Culture and Organizational Risk
  10. Chapter 6: Practical Tools for Creating Safety
  11. Chapter 7: Accountability and Learning from Failure
  12. Chapter 8: New Frontiers in Patient Safety : Complexity and Systems Thinking
  13. Back Cover