First, do less harm : confronting the inconvenient problems of patient safety

Publication Data

• Title First, do less harm : confronting the inconvenient problems of patient safety
• Contributors Ross Koppel, Suzanne Gordon
• Publisher ILR Press
• Publication date 2012
• Publication location Ithaca
• Language English

Contents

The data model that nearly killed me / Joseph M. Bugajski
Too mean to clean : how we forgot to clean our hospitals / Rosalind Stanwell-Smith
What goes without saying in patient safety / Suzanne Gordon and Bonnie O'Connor
Health care information technology to the rescue / Ross Koppel ... [et al.]
A day in the life of a nurse / Kathleen Burke
Excluded actors in patient safety / Peter Lazes, Suzanne Gordon, and Sameh Samy
Nursing as patient safety net : systems issues and future directions / Sean Clarke
Physicians, sleep deprivation, and safety / Christopher P. Landrigan
Sleep-deprived nurses : sleep and schedule challenges in nursing / Alison M. Trinkoff and Jeanne Geiger-Brown
Wounds that don't heal : nurses' experience with medication errors / Linda A. Treiber and Jackie H. Jones
On teams, teamwork, and team intelligence / Suzanne Gordon
Conclusion : twenty-seven paradoxes, ironies, and challenges of patient safety / Ross Koppel, Suzanne Gordon, and Joel Leon Telles.

Topics

• Medical errors :: Prevention
• Patients :: Safety measures
• Medical care :: Safety measures
• Hospital care :: Safety measures

First, do less harm : confronting the inconvenient problems of patient safety. ISBN 9780801450778. Published by ILR Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.