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Description

Every day, doctors are faced with the challenge of keeping the people they treat safe and free from harm. Patient safety is a relatively new field of study, but the field is expanding and there is now better understanding of what is needed to measure and achieve safety for patients.

The Handbook of Patient Safety will empower doctors, nurses and other professionals to be able to develop safe clinical processes that allow proactive management and minimisation of risk, so that people are not harmed when they receive clinical care. It gives the rationale for patient safety, the theories behind the science of patient safety and then the practical methods that frontline staff can use on a daily basis to decrease harm.

Pocket sized and practical, this handbook is the ideal guide to support frontline staff and trainees, as well as all allied professionals in the name of patient safety. It reflects the World Health Organization's Patient Safety Curriculum and is written by international experts in their field who have specialist interests and direct expertise in dealing with patient safety issues. This book will demystify what is often seen as a complex topic, helping doctors understand the methods needed to provide safe care.

About the editors: Edited by Peter Lachman, Lead Faculty Quality Improvement Programme, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Jane Runnacles, Consultant Paediatrician, St Georges University Hospital NHS Trust, Anita Jayadev, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Wexham Park Foundation NHS Trust, John Brennan, General Practitioner, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Faculty, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and John Fitzsimons, Consultant Paediatrician, Temple Street Childrens Hospital, Dublin

Table of contents

Part 1 Introduction to science and theory of patient safety
1:The Rationale and science of Patient Safety, Peter Lachman & John Fitzsimons
2:The Culture and system of Patient Safety, Ahmeda Ali & John Fitzsimons
3: Transparent Leadership for safety, Blair L. Sadler & Peter Lachman
4:Codesigning for Safety and Patients Leading for Safety, John Brennan, Eugene Nelson, Sibylle Erdmann & Margaret Murphy
5:The Economics of Patient Safety, James F O'Mahony
6:Developing a Safe Clinical Team, Patricia O'Connor
7:Communicating to be Safe, David Crosby & Peter Lachman
8: Situation Awareness and patient safety, Eoin Fitzgerald & Peter Lachman
9:Practical Application of Human Factors and ergonomics to Improve Safety, Thomas Jun & Sue Hignett
10:Reliability Theory and its application in daily work and standardisation, Uma Kotagal & Peter Lachman
11: Resilience Theory, Complexity Science and Safety 2, Kate Churruca, Robyn Clay-Williams, Janet C Long, Louise A Ellis & Jeffrey Braithwaite
Part 2 Practical application and methodologies of patient safety
12:Measuring Patient Safety at a System, Organisation and National Level, Jason Leitch & Thomas Lamont
13: How to Measure Patient Safety on the Front Line, Jane Runnacles & John Fitzsimons
14: Improving to be Safe, Peter Lachman, Susanne O'Reilly, Michael Marx and John Brennan
15:Learning from Success to be safer, Adrian Plunkett
16: Investigating and learning from Adverse Events, Kevin Stewart & Rachel Pool
17:Open Disclosure, Mark O'Brien & Pallavi Bradshaw
18:Caring for the Caregivers - The Second Victim, Kris Vanhaecht
Part 3 Translating theory to clinical practice
19:Safety and information technology, Christopher Cornue
20:Enabling Medication Safety, Frank Frederico
21:Paediatric medication safety, James Hoffman & Kristen Hughes
22:Preventing and Decreasing Infections, Rob Cunney
23: Sepsis and Antimicrobial stewardship, Rob Cunney
24:Detecting and Limiting Deterioration, Anita Jayadev, Karen Britton & Shefal Patel:
25:Preventing and Limiting Diagnostic Error, Tricia Woodhead and Gail Nielsen
26:Safety in Primary Care and General Practice, John Brennan
27:Safety in the Emergency Department, Damian Roland & Jay Banerjee
28:Safety in Outpatients and Ambulatory Care, Anita Jayadev & Sean Harding
29:Safety in the operating theatre, Rob Bethune
30:Safety in Paediatrics and Child Health, Jane Runnacles
31:Safety in Maternity and Women's Health, David Crosby
32:Safety in Mental Health, Daniel Hayes
33:Safety in Intensive Care, Kevin Rooney & Suying Ong
34:Safety in Patients with Frailty and Complex Long-Term Conditions, Kirstyn James
35:Safety in a multi-disciplinary team, Kieran Murray & Michael Marx
36:Safety in the laboratory, Kevin O'Hare
37:Safety in a pandemic, Riccardo Trataglia, Micaela La Regina and Peter Lachman