Patient Safety, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

Guest Editor Juan Sanchez reviews articles in Safe Surgery for the general surgeon. Articles include iatrogenesis: the nature, frequency, and science of medical errors, risk management and the regulatory framework for safer surgery medication, lab, and blood banking errors, surgeons' non-technical skills, creating safe and effective surgical teams, human factors and operating room safety, systemic analysis of adverse events: identifying root causes and latent errors, information technologies and patient safety, patient safety and the surgical workforce, measuring and preventing healthcare associated infections, the surgeon's four-phase reaction to error, universal protocols and wrong-site/wrong-patient events, unconscious biases and patient safety, and much more!

Product details

• Authors: Juan A Sanchez, Juan A Sanchez, Sanchez Juan A.
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2012
• EAN: 9781455739370
• ISBN: 978-1-4557-3937-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 13 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Series: The Clinics: Surgery
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Surgery / General, general surgery