Safer Healthcare : Strategies for the Real World / Charles Vincent and René Amalberti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vincent, Charles, author.

Amalberti, René, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health services administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

2016.

Cham (CH) : Springer Nature, 2016.

Summary:

Preface -- Acknowledgements and Thanks -- 1. Progress and Challenges for Patient Safety -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- Progress on Patient Safety -- Harm Has Been Defined Too Narrowly -- Safety Is a Moving Target -- Only Part of the Healthcare System Has Been Addressed -- We Are Approaching Safety in the Same Way in All Settings -- Our Model of Intervention Is Limited -- Healthcare Is Changing -- References -- 2. The Ideal and the Real -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- The Day-to-Day Realities of Healthcare -- The Ideal and the Real: Five Levels of Care -- The Cumulative Impact of Poor Quality Care -- Explicit Discussion of the Real Standard of Care Is Critical -- What Is the Impact of Improving Quality Standards? -- Levels of Care and Strategies for Safety Improvement -- References -- 3. Approaches to Safety: One Size Does Not Fit All -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- Approaches to Risk and Hazard: Embrace, Manage or Avoid -- Three Approaches to the Management of Risk -- Rules and Adaptation -- How Many Models for Healthcare? -- Moving Between Models -- Reflections on the Safety Ideal -- References -- 4. Seeing Safety Through the Patient's Eyes -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- What Do We Mean by Harm? -- Safety and Quality of Care from the Patient's Perspective -- Safety Through the Patient's Eyes -- Rethinking Patient Safety -- References -- 5. The Consequences for Incident Analysis -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- What Are We Trying to Learn When We Analyse Incidents? -- Essential Concepts of ALARME -- Select Problems for Analysis Which Are Important to Patients -- Widen the Time Frame of Analysis: Review the Patient Journey -- Success and Failure in Detection and Recovery -- Adapting the Analysis to Context -- References -- 6. Strategies for Safety -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- What Options Do We Have for Improving Safety? -- Five Safety Strategies -- Strategy I: Safety as Best Practice -- Strategy II: Improvement of Work Processes and Systems -- Strategy III: Risk Control -- Strategy IV: Monitoring, Adaptation and Response -- Strategy V: Mitigation -- Innovation -- Selection and Customisation of Strategies to Clinical Context -- References -- 7. Safety Strategies in Hospitals -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- A Little History -- Safety in Hospital: Distinguishing Current and Future Strategies -- Safety as Best Practice -- Improving the System -- Risk Control -- Monitoring, Adaptation and Response -- Mitigation -- Regulatory and Political Determinants of Approaches to Safety -- Safety in Context: The Many Hospital Environments -- References -- 8. Safety Strategies for Care in the Home -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- An Ageing Population and the Expansion of Home Care -- The Challenges of Delivering Healthcare in the Home -- The Hazards of Home Care: New Risks, New Challenges -- Influences on Safety of Healthcare Delivered in the Home -- Safety Strategies and Interventions in the Home -- Optimization Strategies in Home Care: Best Practice and System Improvement -- Risk Control Strategies in Home Care -- Monitoring, Adaptation and Response Strategies in Home Care -- Mitigation -- Reflections on Home Care Safety -- References -- 9. Safety Strategies in Primary Care -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- Challenges for Primary Care -- The Nature of Risk in Primary Care -- Safety as Best Practice -- Improving the System -- Risk Control Strategies -- Monitoring, Adaptation and Response -- Mitigation -- Reflections on Safety in Primary Care -- References -- 10. New Challenges for Patient Safety -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- The Changing Nature of Healthcare -- Improved Safety in Some Contexts -- New Challenges for Patient Safety -- A Global Revolution Rather Than a Local Evolution -- References -- 11. A Compendium of Safety Strategies and Interventions -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- Seeing Safety Through the Patient's Eyes -- Considering Benefit and Harm Along the Patient Journey -- Patient Safety as the Management of Risk Over Time -- Adopting a Range of Safety Models -- Developing a Wider Range of Safety Strategies -- A Compendium of Safety Strategies -- References -- 12. Managing Risk in the Real World -- Published online: January 14, 2016. -- Implications for Patients, Carers and Families -- Implications for Frontline Clinicians and Managers -- Implications for Executives and Boards -- Implications for Regulatory Agencies and Government -- Future Directions for Research and Practice.

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ISBN:

9783319255590

3319255592