Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety™ gives readers “how to” information on analyzing and preventing errors, emphasizing a proactive approach to prevention, in addition to providing strategies for reacting to adverse events.
In addition, Patient Safety:
- Teaches health care organizations how to analyze and prevent errors; provides the tools and information necessary to help organizations create and implement a culture of safety
- Provides strategies for complying with National Patient Safety Goals
- Links standards compliance and the survey process to establishing proactive risk reduction and error prevention activities
- Explains how organizations can use the root cause analysis process and failure mode and effects analysis to improve their processes and prevent errors and
- Presents case studies, examples, forms, and tools for organizations to adapt for their own risk reduction and error prevention activities. New features address the medication process, FMEA, and discipline-specific information about patient safety.
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