The Essential Guide for Patient Safety Officers
2009. 148 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59940-234-5
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The Essential Guide for Patient Safety Officers, copublished with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is a comprehensive and authoritative repository of essential knowledge on patient safety. The book is geared to help patient safety leaders create a culture of safety; plan, oversee, and implement new safety practices and improve safety-related management and operations. The book is applicable to community hospitals, teaching hospitals, health care systems, rural/critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care settings. Best practices, strategies, and tips are provided in two sections: Core Knowledge and Insights and chapter-length case studies from nationally recognized health care organizations. The editors/authors are: Michael Leonard, M.D., Physician Leader of Patient Safety, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, and faculty, IHI; Allan Frankel, M.D., Principal, Lotus Forum, Inc., Washington, D.C., and faculty, IHI; Terri Simmonds, R.N., CPHQ, a Director, IHI; and Carol Haraden, Ph.D., Vice President, IHI.
This book provides:
- Core knowledge and insights for patient safety leaders, clinicians, and change agents
- Strategies and best practices for day-to-day operational issues
- Ways to integrate quality and safety functions
- Strategies for patient safety strategies and initiatives
- Tools, checklists, and guidelines to assess, improve, and monitor patient safety functions
- Detailed case studies from other health care organizations and patient safety leaders
- Discussions on identifying and meeting the patient safety needs at organizations with different resources
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