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Case studies in patient safety : foundations for core competencies / Julie K. Johnson, MSPH, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Center for Healthcare Studies, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Feinburg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, Helen W. Haskell, MA, President, Mothers Against Medical Error, Columbia, South Carolina, Paul R. Barach, MD, MPH, Guest Professor, School of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Julie K., author.
- Haskell, Helen, author.
- Barach, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical errors--Case studies.
- Medical errors.
- Medical personnel and patient--Case studies.
- Medical personnel and patient.
- Medical care--Quality control--Case studies.
- Medical care.
- Hospitals--Safety measures--Case studies.
- Hospitals.
- Patient Safety.
- Clinical Competence.
- Medical Errors--prevention & control.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Hospitals--Safety measures.
- Medical care--Quality control.
- Medical Subjects:
- Patient Safety.
- Clinical Competence.
- Medical Errors--prevention & control.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xl, 341 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, Massachusetts : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Patient care. It's hard to kill a healthy 15-year-old ; Routine appendectomy ; The origins of the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry into the National Health Service ; Consent and disclosure in pediatric heart surgery
- Knowledge for practice. I'm left in fear : an account of harm in maternity case ; A routine endoscopic procedure ; The last run : an undiagnosed heart rhythm disturbance
- Practice-based learning and improvement. Improving care for people with intellectual disability ; A cascade of small events : learning from an unexpected postsurgical death ; Accidental fall in a hospital
- Interpersonal and communication skills. Not considered a partner : a mother's story of a tonsillectomy gone wrong ; Lost : a patient's search for answers for intractable pain ; The silence of the hospital : lessons on supporting patients and staff after an adverse event
- Professionalism. The big picture : a terminally ill patient in a fragmented system ; Without a heart : the legal sequelae of an unexplained hospital death ; Small steps : from medication adjustment to permanent disability ; The definition of alive : the story of an equivocal birth
- Systems-based practice. Not for IV use : the story of an enteral tubing misconnection ; Death despite known drug allergy ; The trial meant for you : the lifelong medical journey of a child with a complex congenital condition
- Interprofessional collaboration. Failure to rescue ; Unmonitored : a postsurgical narcotic overdose in the hospital ; The voice that is missing : a mother's journey in patient safety advocacy ; When healing harms : recovering from a multisystem traumatic injury
- Personal and professional development. Afterword : personal and professional development ; Appendix : recommended list of core competencies for health professions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781449681555
- 1449681557
- Publisher Number:
- 99985862550
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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