Every healthcare organization must address the issue of medical error or face the negative response of the public, the media, and regulatory bodies. This practical resource will provide you with a comprehensive blueprint for building and supporting a culture of patient safety. It includes contributions from experts in leading organizations including the renowned Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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Michael Leonard, M.D., is physician leader of patient safety atKaiser Permanente in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and words with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Allan Frankel, M.D., is director of patient safety at Partners Healthcare in Boston. He also works with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Error.
Terri Simmonds, R.N., CPHQ, is a director at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston. She also works with the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Error.
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The rate of error and inadvertent harm throughout American healthcare is substantial and unacceptably high despite the existence of well-trained clinicians, the best technology, and the highest cost per capita health resources in the world (Resnick 2003). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
safety climate scale, ombuds program, trigger tool, hazard score, common mental model, human factors training, healthcare leaders, patient harm, appropriate assertion, safety culture, system flaws, appropriate accountability, patient safety, safe care, medical error, adverse drug events, circulating nurse, sentinel event Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Patient Safety Leadership, Health Care, Leapfrog Group, United States, New York, Journal of the American Medical Association, Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Jesica Santillan, New Englandjournal of Medicine, National Patient Safety Foundation, San Francisco, Annals of Internal Medicine, Carolina Donor Services, Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, Chicago Tribune, Communicating About Episodes of Harm, Johns Hopkins Hospital, National Quality Forum New!
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The rate of error and inadvertent harm throughout American healthcare is substantial and unacceptably high despite the existence of well-trained clinicians, the best technology, and the highest cost per capita health resources in the world (Resnick 2003). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Patient Safety Leadership, Health Care, Leapfrog Group, United States, New York, Journal of the American Medical Association, Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Jesica Santillan, New Englandjournal of Medicine, National Patient Safety Foundation, San Francisco, Annals of Internal Medicine, Carolina Donor Services, Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, Chicago Tribune, Communicating About Episodes of Harm, Johns Hopkins Hospital, National Quality Forum New!
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- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins on page 70, and page 80
- Patient Safety, 1e by Charles Vincent on page 157, and page 161
- Community Health by June Clark in Front Matter
- Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity by Karl E. Weick on page 152
- The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care by Dartmouth Medical School Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences on page 33
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- Medication Errors (Cohen, Medication Errors) by Michael R. Cohen on page 649
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