Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management

Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential o...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Donaldson, Liam (Editor), Ricciardi, Walter (Editor), Sheridan, Susan (Editor), Tartaglia, Riccardo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Guidelines and Safety Practices for Improving Patient Safety
  • 2. Brief story of a clinical risk manager
  • 3. Human Error and Patient Safety
  • 4. Looking forward to the future
  • 5. Safer care: shaping the future
  • 6. Patients for Patient Safety
  • 7. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety from the Perspective of Medical Residents
  • Part II. Background
  • 8. Patient Safety in the World
  • 9. Infection Prevention and Control
  • 10. The patient journey
  • 11. Adverse event investigation and risk assessment
  • 12. From theory to real world integration: implementation science and beyond
  • Part III. Patient safety in the main clinical specialties
  • 13. Intensive care and anesthesiology
  • 14. "Safe Surgery Saves Lives"
  • 15. Emergency Department Clinical Risk
  • 16. Obstetric Safety Patient
  • 17. Patient Safety in the main clinical specialties
  • 18. Risks in Oncology and Radiation Therapy
  • 19. Orthopaedics and Traumatology
  • 20.Patient Safety & Risk Management in Mental Health
  • 21. Pediatrics
  • 22. Patient safety in the main clinical specialties: Radiology
  • 23. Organ Donor Risk Stratification in Italy
  • 24. Patient Safety in Laboratory Medicine
  • 25. Ophthalmology
  • IV Healthcare organization
  • 26. Community and Primary Care
  • 27. Complexity science as a frame for understanding the management and delivery of high quality and safer care
  • 28. Measuring clinical workflow to improve quality and safety
  • 29. Shiftwork Organization
  • 30. Non Technical Skills in Healthcare
  • 31. Medication safety
  • 32. Digital technology and usabililty and ergonomics of medical devices
  • 33. Lessons learned from the Japan Obstetric Compensation System for Cerebral Palsy: A novel system of data aggregation, investigation, amelioration, and no-fault compensation
  • 34. Coping with the COVID -19 pandemic: roles and responsibilities for preparedness.