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Human Error and Safety eBook Series

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  • Human Error in Medicine

    Edited by Marilyn Sue Bogner ...
    Series series Human Error and Safety
    This edited collection of articles addresses aspects of medical care in which human error is associated with unanticipated adverse outcomes. For the purposes of this book, human error encompasses mismanagement of medical care due to:* inadequacies or ambiguity in the design of a medical device or institutional setting for the delivery of medical care;* inappropriate responses to antagonistic ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

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    Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement, Third Edition

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    Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology and mindsets to improve safety, quality, access, and morale while reducing costs, increasing capacity, and strengthening the long-term ... Read more

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  • Creative Safety Solutions

    by Thomas D Schneid ...
    Series series Occupational Safety & Health Guide Series
    In today's rapidly changing workplace, safety and loss prevention professionals cannot always "go by the book" for the answers to new and unique problems and issues. When there is no tried-and-true solution to a problem, safety and loss prevention professionals must think outside of the box of conventional solutions and develop new and creative sol ... Read more

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  • Analyzing Form, Function, and Financing of the U.S. Health Care System

    by Paula Stamps Duston ...
    Analyzing Form, Function, and Financing of the U.S. Health Care System tells the story of the U.S. health care system by using a narrative approach identifying function rather than the more common data-driven focus on structure. It presents policy decisions we have made about our health care system and analyzes some of their consequences to better ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Prevention is Better than Cure

    Learning from Adverse Events in Healthcare

    by Ian Leistikow ...
    Adverse events occur in healthcare with worrying and surprising frequency and, of these, a substantial portion are preventable. This highly-readable book, translated and update from the original Dutch edition, presents 15 model case studies which have been carefully designed to explore common themes in medical errors and offer learnings from those events that will guide practice to prevent similar ... Read more

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  • Health Systems Improvement Across the Globe

    Success Stories from 60 Countries

    Edited by Jeffrey Braithwaite, Russell Mannion, Yukihiro Matsuyama, Paul Shekelle, Stuart Whittaker, Samir Al-Adawi ...
    Following on from 2015’s Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety: Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 Countries, this book encompasses a global perspective on healthcare while shifting the focus from reform to showcasing success stories of healthcare systems worldwide. It provides explanations of why various facets of healthcare systems work well in different contexts and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Human Factors and Ergonomics of Prehospital Emergency Care

    Edited by Joseph R. Keebler, Elizabeth H. Lazzara, Paul Misasi ...
    This book provides an introduction to the field of human factors for individuals who are involved in the delivery and/or improvement of prehospital emergency care and describes opportunities to advance the practical application of human factors research in this critical domain. Relevant theories of human performance, including systems engineering principles, teamwork, training, and decision making ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Medical Leadership

    The key to medical engagement and effective organisations, Second Edition

    by Peter Spurgeon, John Clark ...
    This title is a comprehensive account of the key aspects of medical leadership. A highly accessible, text book-style resource, it explores how the medical profession has evolved in tandem with administrative and structural aspects of the NHS. Assuming leadership roles at all stages of their training and career is a progressively vital component of the definition of a good doctor. This book will ... Read more

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  • Just-in-Time for Healthcare

    by Thomas L. Jackson ...
    Series series Lean Tools for Healthcare Series
    The change from traditional ways of producing and managing healthcare services to a just-in-time approach requires a new understanding about what adds value for the patient or customer, and what does not. Just-in-Time for Healthcare is intended to share powerful knowledge that will help you participate effectively in the change to just-in-time.Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare series, this ... Read more

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  • Performance Management in Healthcare

    From Key Performance Indicators to Balanced Scorecard

    by Bryan P. Bergeron ...
    Series series HIMSS Book Series
    Performance management, often referred to as process management, is a strategy that can be used to achieve an optimum mix of quality, safety, patient satisfaction and solvency. The basis of performance management is the effective use of resources, as measured by quantifying processes and outcomes using key performance indicators (KPIs) – core measures that gauge the performance of an organization ... Read more

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  • Continuous Improvement Strategies

    How to Manage, Motivate, and Retain Staff

    by Anthony Matthew Hopper ...
    During this era of continuous improvement, healthcare organizations need to be staffed by engaged, motivated, and hard-working frontline employees. As these clinical and non-clinical personnel handle most of the important tasks in any organization and are often the people who directly interact with patients and customers, it's the job of managers to oversee and motivate their staff members. Using ... Read more

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  • Humanity in Healthcare

    The Heart and Soul of Medicine

    by Peter Barritt ...
    The impressive progress of medical science over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has tended to overshadow the art of caring for the patient and their families. This book aims to restore the balance by examining practical ways in which the arts can help health professionals to understand the experience of suffering and illness. Written by a family physician with 25 years experience, Humanity ... Read more

    $69.99 USD