First, Do Less Harm : : Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety /

First, Do Less Harm : : Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety / / ed. by Suzanne Gordon, Ross Koppel.

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Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bugajski, Joseph M.,
Burke, Kathleen,
Clarke, Sean,
Davidson, Stephen M.,
Geiger-Brown, Jeanne,
Gordon, Suzanne,
Jones, H. Jackie,
Koppel, Ross,
Landrigan, Christopher P.,
Lazes, Peter,
O’Connor, Bonnie,
Samy, Sameh,
Sinsky, Christine A.,
Stanwell-Smith, Rosalind,
Telles, Joel Leon,
Treiber, Linda A.,
Trinkoff, Alison M.,
Wears, Robert L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Gordon, Suzanne,
Koppel, Ross,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 chart/graph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me
  • 2. Too Mean to Clean
  • 3. What Goes without Saying in Patient Safety
  • 4. Health Care Information Technology to the Rescue
  • 5. A Day in the Life of a Nurse
  • 6. Excluded Actors in Patient Safety
  • 7. Nursing as Patient Safety Net
  • 8. Physicians, Sleep Deprivation, and Safety
  • 9. Sleep-deprived Nurses
  • 10. Wounds That Don’t Heal
  • 11. On Teams, Teamwork, and Team Intelligence
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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