Improving Patient Safety: Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement [Hardcover]

Based on the IOM's estimate of 44,000 deaths annually, medical errors rank as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S. Clearly medical errors are an epidemic that needs to be contained. Despite these numbers, patient safety and medical errors remain an issue for physicians and other clinicians. This book bridges the issues related to patient safety by providing clinically relevant, vignette-based description of the areas where most problems occur. Each vignette highlights a particular issue such as communication, human facturs, E.H.R., etc. and provides tools and strategies for improving quality in these areas and creating a safer environment for patients.

Preface

Editors

List of Contributors

1 Introduction to Patient Safety and Medical Errors

NAKUL KATYAL

2 Developing an Outline for Patient Safety Curriculum

NAKUL KATYAL

3 Understanding System Errors

Section 1 Human Factors Engineering

Clinical Vignette 1: Every Sound Alarms

DANISH KHERANI

Clinical Vignette 2: Man and His Machine

AHMER ASIF

Clinical Vignette 3: Expensive Gift

ANUDEEP YELAM

Section 2 Communication Issues

Clinical Vignette 1: Doctors Are from Mars and Nurses Are from Venus!

TRIPTI CHOPADE

Clinical Vignette 2: Different Paths Yet the Same Goal

TRIPTI CHOPADE

Clinical Vignette 3: It Was Eriks Fault!

TRIPTI CHOPADE

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