Patient safety in emergency medicine /
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Imprint: | Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009. |
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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 |
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