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Download or read book Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management written by Liam Donaldson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.
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Download or read book Moral Dilemmas in Community Health Care written by Becky Cox White and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical anthology provides a framework for thinking about moral dilemmas, followed by case studies featuring commentaries from health care and other professionals on a variety of community health care issues. Moral Dilemmas in Community Healthcare: Cases and Commentary emphasizes the real-life ethical dilemmas community health-care professionals are likely to encounter and gives them real tools for moral reasoning. Featuring the perspectives of nurses, physicians, pharmacists, hospital administrators, ethicists, and lay-persons, as well as legal and policy perspectives, the provocative case studies address everyday health care challenges.
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