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Author: Robert Wachter
ISBN : B00885RH1E
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"This highly readable yet comprehensive book will appeal to every member of the healthcare team. It is a must for every physician's bookshelf."
-- Abraham Verghese, MD, Professor, Stanford University andauthor of the bestselling Cutting for Stone
"Bob Wachter's quest to improve the safety of American healthcare represents the very essence of a physician's duty to put the patient first. His unflinching candor about the nature and magnitude of our current safety problems is matched only by his passion forimprovement."
-- Mark R. Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH, President, The Joint Commission
"Amazingly readable for such a wealth of important information. This book should be required reading for every health professional and every healthcare executive."
-- Christine Cassel, MD, President and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine
"In a single volume, Wachter accomplishes the seemingly impossible: furnishing the novice with a highly accessible, easy-to-read introduction to patient safety, while providing a comprehensive, fully annotated reference for the experienced patient safety practitioner. All of the important issues are addressed in individual chapters, each with a lively and relevant clinical example and a “key points” summary at the end bracketing full, balancedand lucid descriptions. A true gem, destined to be a close companion for all of us who strive to make healthcare safe."
-- Lucian Leape, MD, Professor, Harvard School of Public Health and Chair, Lucian Leape Institute of the National Patient Safety Foundation
"There's no more prominent authority on patient safety than Bob Wachter. And there's no more effective primer on patient safety than this one."
-- Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, staff writer for the New Yorker, and bestselling author of Complications and The Checklist Manifesto
"Compelling: a must read for all concerned with patient safety. Bob Wachter has a unique voice, incorporating clinical experience, research expertise, and policy implications…all with the patient front and center."
-- Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, Professor and Director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Understanding Patient Safety, Second Edition is the essential book for anyone seeking to learn the core clinical, organizational, and systems issues of patient safety. Written in an engaging and accessible style by one of the world’s leading authorities on patient safety and quality, Understanding Patient Safety is filled with valuable cases and analyses, as well as tables, graphics, references, and tools. This classic reference is designed to make the patient safety field understandable to medical, nursing, pharmacy, hospital administration, and other trainees, and to be the go-to book for experienced clinicians and non-clinicians alike.
The second edition has been revised to include coverage of the latest issues and trends, including:
- Information technology
- Measurements of safety, errors, and harm
- Checklist-based interventions
- Safety targets
- Policy issues in patient safety
- Balancing “no blame” and accountability
Understanding Patient Safety, Second Edition delivers key insights to help you understand and prevent aa broad range of errors, including those related to medications, surgery, diagnosis, infections, and nursing care. The crucial contextual issues -- including errors at the person-machine interface, the role of culture, patient engagement in their own safety, and workforce and trainee considerations, are also well covered. Finally, the book provides a practical overview of how to organize an effective safety program, in both hospitals and clinics.
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- Print Length: 320 pages
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- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition (May 2, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00885RH1E
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This book is extremely well written, engrossing, engaging, and comprehensive. It covers all the important topics, but unlike most textbooks it's hard to put it down once you get started. The book is also up to the minute, with some of the most talked-about new studies incorporated into the text. One powerful element is the inclusion of patient stories at the beginning of each chapter, which alone transforms this from a dry textbook plow-through experience into a gripping read that will change the way you think about health care delivery. And look out for the zingers. Did you know Alfred Hitchcock may have something to teach us about how we measure patient safety?
Patient safety is a highly complex topic and fairly new to academia, so it's great to have a guide like this to sort out the key issues, categorize the research, and (through the patient and clinician stories) really understand the enormity of what's at stake.
By Leah Binder
This is a really fantastic book for anyone interested in patient safety. Wachter breaks down a wideranging field into 22 topic-driven chapters and opens each with a real case that illustrates the issues to be discussed. The book is readable and includes many useful charts and graphs. Highly recommended.
By Nathan Moore