The Essential Guide for Patient Safety Officers (PDF book)
2009. 148 pages. PDF book. ISBN: 978-1-59940-507-0
This PDF book is for individual use only. It cannot be forwarded to others or posted for unlimited access.
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
This product is also offered as a
hardcopy book.
Item Number:
EBPSOH08
Price: $65.00 USD
