Patient Safety

Part I. Concepts

1. Patient Identification
Dea M. Hughes

2. Teamwork and Communication
Joseph Conigliaro

3. Handoff and Care Transitions
Mei-Sing Ong, Enrico Coiera

4. Graduate Medical Education and Patient Safety
Jeanne M. Farnan, Vineet M. Arora

5. Electronic Health Record and Patient Safety
Ken Ong, Regina Cregin

6. Clinical Ethics and Patient Safety
Erin A. Egan

Part II. Examples

7. Medication Error
Mei Kong, Abdul Mondul

8. Medication Reconciliation Error
Robert J. Weber, Susan Moffatt-Bruce

9. Retained Surgical Items
Verna C. Gibbs

10. Wrong-Site Surgery
Patricia Ann O’Neill, Eric N. Klein

11. Transfusion-Related Hazards
Barbara Rabin Fastman, Harold S. Kaplan

12. Hospital-Acquired Infections
Ethan D. Fried

13. Hospital Falls
Cynthia J. Brown, Rebecca S. (Suzie) Miltner

14. Pressure Ulcers
Grace M. Blaney, Monica Santoro

15. Diagnostic Error
Satid Thammasitboon, Supat Thammasitboon, Geeta Singhal

Part III. Special Considerations

16. Patient Safety in Pediatrics
Erin Stucky Fisher

17. Patient Safety in Radiology
Alan Kantor, Stephen Waite

18. Patient Safety in Anesthesia
Brian Bush, Rebecca S. Twersky

19. Patient Safety in Behavioral Health
Renuka Ananthamoorthy, Robert J. Berding

20. Patient Safety in Outpatient Care
Urmimala Sarkar

Part IV. Organizational Issues

21. Error Disclosure
Bryan A. Liang, Kimberly M. Lovett

22. The Culture of Safety
Alberta T. Pedroja

23. Second Victim
Susan D. Scott, Kristin Hahn-Cover

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Practice Management, General Practice / Family Medicine, Primary Care Medicine, Health Informatics