Making healthcare safe : the story of the patient safety movement

Making healthcare safe : the story of the patient safety movement / Lucian L. Leape.

This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement's founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the...

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Main Author: Leape, Lucian L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2021.
Subjects:
Patients > Safety measures.
Patients > Safety measures
Seguretat dels pacients.
Llibres electrònics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: In the Beginning
  • The Hidden Epidemic
  • It's Not Bad People
  • Changing the System
  • Coming Together
  • Part II: Institutional Responses
  • We Can Do This
  • Who Will Lead?
  • A Community of Concern
  • When the IOM Speaks
  • The Government Responds
  • Setting Standards
  • Enforcing Standards
  • Partners in Progress
  • Going Global
  • Just Do It
  • Spreading the Word
  • Publish or Perish
  • Part III: Getting to Work
  • Sleepy Doctors
  • A Conspiracy of Silence
  • Who Can I Trust?
  • Everyone Counts
  • Part IV: Creating A Culture of Safety
  • Make No Little Plans
  • Now the Hard Part.

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