Strategies for Building a Hospitalwide Culture of Safety

2006. 200 pages. ISBN: 1-59940-003-0
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Strategies for Building a Hospitalwide Culture of Safety provides guidance for senior leaders on how to create a culture of safety in their organization and how to support safe practices. The ideas and lessons represented in this new book - a collection of articles from the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety - can help health care organizations develop and refine their culture of safety and achieve better patient outcomes and overall better performance. Allan Frankel, M.D., Director of Patient Safety, Partners Healthcare, Boston, provides commentary on the articles. You'll learn how to assess the three essential elements of a patient safety program - identifying patient safety hazards, analyzing incidents, and implementing improvements; how to realize improved patient safety, reduced medication errors, and enhanced communication between patients and families and care providers; apply the real-life lessons learned in this book to your own organization; how to promote a culture of safety; strategies for implementing error-reporting systems that staff members see as a tool rather than a punitive action; and more.

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Item Number:
SBHC06

Price: $75.00 USD