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Patient safety : an essential guide / Heather Gluyas, Paul Morrison.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Copyright date: © 2013Description: xi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230354963
  • 9780230354968
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.289 23
LOC classification:
  • RA969.9
Contents:
What do we mean by patient safety? -- Engaging patients in the safety agenda -- Healthcare acquired infections -- Medication errors -- Teamwork and patient safety -- Managing risk-learning from errors -- Situation awareness -- Where to from here?.
Summary: "This book focuses on human factors to explore the relationship between human behaviour and fallibility. It covers the design of systems and processes, environments, tools, tasks and technology which can help to positively improve a patient's safety and experience"--Page 4 of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What do we mean by patient safety? -- Engaging patients in the safety agenda -- Healthcare acquired infections -- Medication errors -- Teamwork and patient safety -- Managing risk-learning from errors -- Situation awareness -- Where to from here?.

"This book focuses on human factors to explore the relationship between human behaviour and fallibility. It covers the design of systems and processes, environments, tools, tasks and technology which can help to positively improve a patient's safety and experience"--Page 4 of cover.

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