Contemporary Topics in Patient Safety

Volume 3

Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Philip N. Salen

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9780854667154
• Print ISBN:
  9780854667161
• Topic: Medicine

Ensuring the delivery of quality, accessible, affordable, and safe healthcare presents an ongoing complex challenge crucial to the progression and advancement of modern healthcare systems. In addition to providing the highest quality health care to patients, healthcare leadership and systems must also provide for the safety and security of healthcare providers throughout the entire, complex healthcare conglomerate, including pre-hospital providers, pharmacists, patient care technicians, radiological technicians, nurses, physical therapists, physician extenders, and physicians. Every aspect of care provided merits consideration for quality improvement, augmenting clinical efficiency, promoting effective, efficient collaboration and coordination between different clinical services, curtailing exorbitant healthcare costs, and boosting patient and provider safety. This third installment of Contemporary Topics in Patient Safety examines a broad variety of interrelated connected themes corresponding to the benefits and challenges of providing safety-focused quality patient care via improved clinical infrastructure, conceptual planning, symbiotic team-building enhancements, and sage leadership. The elements, issues, and dilemmas discussed in this textbook pertain to both resource-replete and resource-challenged nations, and to worldwide health systems, which develop uniquely in response to unique, local conundrums and dilemmas. Topics discussed in this volume address the central factors of identifying and facilitating the promotion of continual advancement of clinical routines and regimens among individuals and medical teams as well as institutional practices towards enhanced safety and improved outcomes.

Table of contents

• Contemporary Topics in Patient Safety - Volume 3
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter1 Introductory Chapter: Enhancing PhysicianWellness to Prevent Burnout Promotes Clinician and Patient Safety
• Chapter2 Building a Safety-Centric CultureThat Fosters Psychological Safety from Onboarding Onwards
• Chapter3 Restructuring the Informed Consent toTreatment to Reduce Narratives of Regret
• Chapter4 Fentanyl and Its Derivatives, Pharmacology, Use and Abuse, and Detection Possibilities
• Chapter5 Opioids in CancerTherapy: Benefits, Risks, and Critical Challenges
• Chapter6 Ten Quality Improvement Initiatives to Standardize Healthcare Processes
• Chapter7 Long WaitTimes at Hospitals in Jamaica: A Potential Risk to Patient Safety
• Chapter8 Does Social Media Promote Health Misinformation? The Malaysian Scenario