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Informationen zum Autor Charles Vincent , Professor of Clinical Safety Research Imperial College London Director National Institute for Health Research Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare Trust Klappentext PATIENT SAFETY SECOND EDITION Charles Vincent, Professor of Clinical Safety Research, Department of Biosurgery & Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, UK When you are ready to implement measures to improve patient safety, this is the book to consult. Charles Vincent, one of the world's pioneers in patient safety, discusses each and every aspect clearly and compellingly. He reviews the evidence of risks and harms to patients, and he provides practical guidance on implementing safer practices in healthcare. The second edition puts greater emphasis on this practical side. Examples of team based initiatives show how patient safety can be improved by changing practices, both cultural and technological, throughout whole organisations. Not only does this bene t patients; it also impacts positively on healthcare delivery, with consequent savings in the economy. Patient Safety has been praised as a gateway to understanding the subject. This second edition is more than that - it is a revelation of the pervading in uence of healthcare errors, and a guide to how these can be overcome. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION The rst edition was superb. This sounds even better. Lucian Leape, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard University This is the one book on patient safety I would take to my desert island to ensure that the health service delivered to me there, by whatever means, minimised the risk of error and harm. Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Of cer to the NHS The beauty of Vincent's book is the unique insight given on the subject by the foremost researcher on patient safety in the UK. Aneez Esmail, Professor of General Practice, University of Manchester Zusammenfassung Patient safety! at its simplest! is the attempt to understand! reduce! and ameliorate the harm to patients caused by healthcare rather than disease. The new edition of this paperback puts even more emphasis on what can be done to improve the safety of healthcare! nearly doubling the number of chapters devoted to the topic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix The nature of the book xi Inspiration acknowledgements and thanks xiii Section One The Evolution of Patient Safety Chapter 1 Medical harm: a brief history 3 Chapter 2 The emergence of patient safety 14 Chapter 3 Integrating safety and quality 31 Section Two The Hazards of Healthcare Chapter 4 The nature and scale of error and harm 49 Chapter 5 Reporting and learning systems 75 Chapter 6 Measuring safety 96 Section Three From Accident Analysis to System Design Chapter 7 Human error and systems thinking 119 Chapter 8 Understanding how things go wrong 141 Section Four The Aftermath Chapter 9 Caring for patients harmed by treatment 171 Chapter 10 Supporting staff after serious incidents 192 Section Five Design Technology and Standardization Chapter 11 Clinical interventions and process improvement 211 Chapter 12 Design for patient safety 230 Chapter 13 Using information technology to reduce error 246 Section Six People Create Safety Chapter 14 Creating a culture of safety 269 Chapter 15 Patient involvement in patient safety 290 Chapter 16 Procedures violations and migrations 307 Chapter 17 Safety skills 321 Chapter 18 Teams create safety 341 Section Seven The Journey to Safety Chapter 19 Safe organizations: bringing it all together 371 Chapter 20 High performing healthcare systems 39...
