Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety

Error Reduction in Health Care

Completely revised and updated, this second edition of Error Reduction in Health Care offers a step-by-step guide for implementing the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine to reduce the frequency of errors in health care services and to mitigate the impact of errors when they do occur.

With contributions from noted leaders in health safety, Error Reduction in Health Care provides information on analyzing accidents and shows how systematic methods can be used to understand hazards before accidents occur. In the chapters, authors explore how to prioritize risks to accurately focus efforts in a systems redesign, including performance measures and human factors.

This expanded edition covers contemporary material on innovative patient safety topics such as applying Lean principles to reduce mistakes, opportunity analysis, deductive adverse event investigation, improving safety through collaboration with patients and families, using technology for patient safety improvements, medication safety, and high reliability organizations.

The Editor

Nyckelord: Institute of Medicine guidelines, health care quality, healthcare quality, recommendations for health care quality, recommendations for health care quality, risk management in healthcare, risk management in health care, health care management program, healthcare management program, Six Sigma and health care, Six Sigma and healthcare, opportunity analysis and health care, opportunity analysis and healthcare, health care adverse event investigations, healthcare adverse event investigations, collaborating with patients to improve safety, collaborating with families to improve safety, using technology to improve patient safety, medication safety, high reliability healthcare organizations, high reliability health care organizations, Paul Schyve, Yosef Dlugacz, Donna Slovensky