Innovating for Patient Safety in Medicine [Paperback]

This book helps the next generation of doctors understand how to contribute to making healthcare safer. Patient safety is increasingly important in medical practice today and is becoming a core part of training for medical students and foundation doctors. This book will enable the student or junior doctor to challenge and innovate in practice to improve patient safety and care. It takes a practical approach and explores what patient safety is, why it is important, how to involve patients, the role of education, technology and resources, how to be an innovative practitioner and measuring the impact of patient safety initiatives.
This book helps the next generation of doctors understand how to contribute to making healthcare safer. Patient safety is increasingly important in medical practice today and is becoming a core part of training for medical students and foundation doctors. This book will enable the student or junior doctor to challenge and innovate in practice to improve patient safety and care. It takes a practical approach and explores what patient safety is, why it is important, how to involve patients, the role of education, technology and resources, how to be an innovative practitioner and measuring the impact of patient safety initiatives.
I liked the way the book can help doctors see how they can contribute to making patient safety a priority. It encourages the reader to challenge practice. It's practical in its approach.I thought this book was useful although it did not, for me, make clear just how much unnecessary harm is done to patients in current healthcare systems. Progress has been made in the last 12 years, in the field of patient safety, but there is a long way to go. Western health care systems are a long way from being as safe as they could and should be.
In a way the book is too broad in scope, but that also gives the reader a lot of options in terms of different ways through which to address patient safety cl]