Overview
- Provides a new approach to patient safety in healthcare systems
- Includes real-world case studies and illustrations of risk reduction and safety culture
- Outlines what steps are required to adopt this new approach
- Offers readers vital insights into proactive patient safety
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Conceptual Underpinning to a Paradigm Shift to Improving Patient Safety and the Emergence of the Safer Clinical System Approach
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Implementing Safer Clinical System—Examples of SCS in Practice and Outcomes; and Next Steps to Wide Scale Dissemination
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About this book
This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform. Departing from the priorities applied in traditional approaches, it instead assesses – both theoretically and practically – the successful lessons learned in other safety-critical industries, and applies them to healthcare settings. The authors focus on the importance of human factors and performance measures to establish proactive, systematic methods for healthcare system design. This approach helps to identify potential hazards before accidents occur, enhancing patient safety.
In addition, the book details the new approach on the basis of real-world applications in the NHS and insights from NHS staff. Case studies and results are presented, demonstrating the significant improvements that can be achieved in risk reduction and safety culture.
Lastly, the book outlines what steps healthcare organisations need to take in order to successfully adopt this new approach. The approach and experiential learning isbrought together through the development of a new holistic patient safety education syllabus.Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Safer Healthcare Systems
Book Subtitle: A Proactive, Risk Based Approach to Improving Patient Safety
Authors: Peter Spurgeon, Mark-Alexander Sujan, Stephen Cross, Hugh Flanagan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18244-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18243-4Published: 03 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18246-5Published: 03 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18244-1Published: 21 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 183
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Health Administration, Practice and Hospital Management, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering