Safer Healthcare Strategies for the Real World /

• Main Authors: Vincent, Charles (Author), Amalberti, René (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health administration.; Medical research.; Practice of medicine.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Quality of life.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Administration.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Quality of Life Research.; Practice and Hospital Management.

The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of th...

Table of Contents:

• Progress and Challenges for Patient Safety
• The Ideal and the Real
• Approaches to Safety. One Size Does not Fit All
• Seeing Safety Through the Patient’s Eyes
• The Consequences for Incident Analysis
• Strategies for Safety
• Safety Strategies in Hospitals
• Safety Strategies for Care in the Home
• Safety Strategies in Primary Care
• New challenges for Patient Safety
• A compendium of safety strategies and interventions- Managing risk in the real world.