Building Safer Healthcare Systems A Proactive, Risk Based Approach to Improving Patient Safety /

• Main Authors: Spurgeon, Peter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Sujan, Mark-Alexander (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Cross, Stephen (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Flanagan, Hugh (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Health administration.; Practice of medicine.; Biomedical engineering.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Health Administration.; Practice and Hospital Management.; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.

This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform. Departing from the priorities applied in traditional approaches, it instead assesses - both theoretically and practically - the successful lessons learned in other safety-critical industries, and applies them to healthcare settings. Th...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Continuing Issues of Patient Safety: Data on the Nature and Persistence of Harm, Limitation of Current Approaches
• Proactive Search for Risk: Lessons From Other Safety Critical Industries
• Human Factors - Human Error and Beyond, Performance Influencing Factors, Systems Thinking, High Reliability Organisations
• Patient Safety Culture - Measurement and Implications
• The Safer Clinical Systems Programme
• The 5 steps of the Safer Clinical Systems approach
• Improving the Safety of Handover and Communication
• Next steps towards a proactive, risk based approach to improving patient safety in the health sector. .