Patient safety in emergency medicine /

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Imprint:Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009.
Description:xvii, 428 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Emergency medical services.
Emergency medicine.
Patients -- Safety measures.
Medical errors -- Prevention.
Emergency Medical Services -- organization & administration.
Medical Errors -- prevention & control.
Safety Management -- methods.
Emergency medical services.
Emergency medicine.
Medical errors -- Prevention.
Patients -- Safety measures.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8380252
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Other authors / contributors:Croskerry, Pat.
ISBN:9780781777278 (alk. paper)
0781777275 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding Challenges
  • The Nature of Emergency Medicine
  • History of Patient Safety Movement
  • Patient Safety and Continuous Quality Improvement: A User's Guide
  • A Safe Culture in the Emergency Department
  • Organizational Approach to Safety
  • State of Hospital Organizations: The Pathological Organization
  • Sensemaking, High Reliability Organization, and Resilience
  • Information Flow and Problem Solving
  • The Healthy Emergency Department
  • Understanding Failure
  • Approaches to Understanding Successes and Failure
  • Principles of Incident Reporting
  • Incident Monitoring in the Emergency Department
  • Reporting and Investigating Events
  • Designing and Managing the Ed
  • Critical Processes in the Emergency Department
  • Human Factors Engineering and Safe Systems
  • Emergency Department Designs and Ergonomics
  • Medical Informatics
  • The Lab and Safety
  • Medication Safety in Healthcare Systems
  • Medication Safety in the Emergency Department
  • Emergency Department Overcrowding, Patient Flow, and Safety
  • Coordinating Critical Care from the Emergency Department to the ICU
  • Discharging Safely from the Emergency Department
  • The Safe Medical Team
  • Teams and Teamwork in Emergency Medicine
  • Communication in Teams
  • Teamwork in Medicine: Crew Resource Management and Lessons from Aviation
  • Authority Gradients
  • Transitions in Care
  • Safe Medical Practice
  • Critical Decision-Making in Chaotic Environments
  • Critical Thinking and Reasoning in Emergency Medicine
  • Cognitive and Affective Dispositions to Respond
  • Thinking in a Crisis: Use of Algorithms
  • Knowledge Translation
  • Procedures and Patient Safety
  • Optimizing Human Performances
  • Feedback: Performance Calibration
  • Fatigue, Circadian Cycles, and Shift Work
  • Personality, Gender, and Individual Differences
  • Optimizing Individual Performance
  • Educating for Safety
  • Curriculum for Patient Safety
  • Medical Simulation
  • Morbidity and Mortality Conference and Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine
  • The Cognitive Autopsy: Gaining Insight into Diagnostic Failure
  • Teaching Medical Procedures
  • The Aftermath of Medical Failure
  • A Healthcare Advocate's Journey
  • Disclosure of Error
  • Recovering from Error: Apologies
  • Healthcare Providers: The Second Victims of Medical Error
  • Regulating Safety
  • The Role of Licensing Boards and Regulatory Agencies in Patient Safety
  • International Perspectives on Regulation of Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting
  • Patient Safety and the Liability Crisis
  • Leadership for Safety
  • The Department Chair's Role in Developing a Safe Emergency Department
  • Management Style: Blunt End Behaviors That Make a Difference at the Sharp End
  • Management and Design of Safe Systems
  • Nursing Leadership for Safety
  • Forging a Path for Safety
  • Forging a Path for Safety
  • Appendices
  • Patient Safety Glossary
  • Resource List