First, do less harm : confronting the inconvenient problems of patient safety

First, do less harm : confronting the inconvenient problems of patient safety / edited by Ross Koppel and Suzanne Gordon.

Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of...

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Other Authors: Koppel, Ross, Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012.
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
Subjects:
Medical errors > Prevention.
Patients > Safety measures.
Medical care > Safety measures.
Hospital care > Safety measures.
MEDICAL > Hospital Administration & Care.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Hospital care > Safety measures
Medical care > Safety measures
Medical errors > Prevention
Patients > Safety measures
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me ; 2. Too Mean to Clean: How We Forgot to Clean Our Hospitals ; 3. What Goes without Saying in Patient Safety ; 4. Health Care Information Technology to the Rescue ; 5. A Day in the Life of a Nurse; 6. Excluded Actors in Patient Safety; 7. Nursing as Patient Safety Net: Systems Issues and Future Directions ; 8. Physicians, Sleep Deprivation, and Safety ; 9. Sleep-deprived Nurses: Sleepand Schedule Challenges in Nursing; 10. Wounds That Don't Heal: Nurses' Experience with Medication Errors.
  • 11. On Teams, Teamwork, and Team Intelligence Conclusion: Twenty-seven Paradoxes, Ironies, and Challenges of Patient Safety ; Notes; Contributors; Index.

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