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Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety, 2nd Edition (Patrice L. Spath, editor, ISBN: 978-0-470-50240-2, Paperback, 416 pages, April 2011)
Completely revised and updated, this second edition of Error Reduction in Health Care offers a step-by-step guide for implementing the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine to reduce the frequency of errors in health care services and to mitigate the impact of errors when they do occur. With contributions from noted leaders in health safety, Error Reduction in Health Care provides information on analyzing accidents and shows how systematic methods can be used to understand hazards before accidents occur. In the chapters, authors explore how to prioritize risks to accurately focus efforts in a systems redesign, including performance measures and human factors. This expanded edition covers contemporary material on innovative patient safety topics such as applying Lean principles to reduce mistakes, opportunity analysis, deductive adverse event investigation, improving safety through collaboration with patients and families, using technology for patient safety improvements, medication safety, and high reliability organizations.
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Value by Design: Developing Clinical Microsystems to Achieve Organizational Excellence (Eugene C. Nelson, Paul B. Batalden, Marjorie M. Godfrey, Joel S. Lazar, ISBN: 978-0-470-38534-0, Paperback, 384 pages, March 2011)
Value by Design is a practical guide for real-world improvement in clinical microsystems. Clinical microsystem theory, as implemented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and health care organizations nationally and internationally, is the foundation of high-performing front line health care teams who achieve exceptional quality and value. These authors combine theory and principles to create a strategic framework and field-tested tools to assess and improve systems of care. Their approach links patients, families, health care professionals and strategic organizational goals at all levels of the organization: micro, meso and macrosystem levels to achieve the ultimate quality and value a health care system is capable of offering. (Nelson, Batalden, and Godfrey are also authors of Quality By Design: A Clinical Microsystems Approach.)
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