Patient safety informatics : adverse drug events, human factors, and IT tools for patient medication safety / edited by Vassilis Koutkias ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koutkias, Vassilis.

IOS Press.

Series:

Studies in health technology and informatics ; 0926-9630 v. 166.

Studies in health technology and informatics, 0926-9630 ; v. 166

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions--prevention & control.

Drugs--Toxicology.

Drugs--Prescribing.

Industrial safety.

Hospital Information Systems.

Medical Informatics.

Safety Management.

Medical informatics--Congresses.

Medical informatics.

Drugs--Prescribing--Safety measures--Congresses.

Drugs.

Drugs--Toxicology--Prevention--Congresses.

Health services administration--United States.

Medical care--United States--Quality control.

Medical errors--United States--Prevention.

Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions--prevention & control.

Hospital Information Systems.

Medical Informatics.

Safety Management.

Local Subjects:

Health services administration--United States.

Medical care--United States--Quality control.

Medical errors--United States--Prevention.

Medicine.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 274 pages) : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : IOS Press, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Improving patient safety and the quality of healthcare poses many challenges, and information technology (IT) can support the measures necessary to address these. Unfortunately, the risk of adverse drug events (ADEs) rises alongside the increasing sophistication of the health IT systems incorporated into hospital environments. These pose a risk to the safety of patients and incur considerable extra healthcare costs. Approaches introduced to eliminate ADEs raise a number of concerns, not least that the successful transferability and use of such tools into real clinical settings is only possible by means of a holistic, validated and qualitative approach. This book is a collection of papers presented at the second workshop organized in the context of the EU-funded Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures in medication (PSIP) project and held in May 2011 in Paris. The workshop provides an opportunity for experts active in the field to share ideas and experiences arising from many different perspectives. The 29 papers address current, novel methods and applications which have achieved concrete results and are relevant to the domain of patient safety as a whole, and are grouped into four main sections: designing IT systems for patient safety; methods and technologies for developing patient safety systems; novel applications to validate patient safety informatics and impact assessment studies for patient safety informatics outcomes. Significant progress has been made in the field, but even greater challenges must still be faced if a successful transfer of research ideas and outcomes into clinical practice is to be accomplished. A new focus in healthcare IT is called for; one which specifically addresses the issue of patient safety.

Contents:

Title page; Preface; Contents; Part A. Keynote Papers on Patient Safety Informatics; Part B. Invited Papers on Patient Safety Informatics; Part C. Designing IT Systems for Patient Safety; Part D. Methods and Technologies for Developing Patient Safety Systems; Part E. Novel Applications of Patient Safety Informatics; Part F. Validation and Impact Assessment of Patient Safety Informatics Approaches; Subject Index; Author Index;

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Patient safety informatics.

ISBN:

9781607507406

1607507404

9781607507390

1607507390

OCLC:

758834782

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.