Surgical Patient Care : Improving Safety, Quality and Value /

This book focuses exclusively on the surgical patient and on the perioperative environment with its unique socio-technical and cultural issues. It covers preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative processes and decision making and explores both sharp-end and latent factors contributing to harm...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Sanchez, Juan A; Barach, Paul; Johnson, Julie K; Jacobs, Jeffrey P
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44010-1
Summary: This book focuses exclusively on the surgical patient and on the perioperative environment with its unique socio-technical and cultural issues. It covers preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative processes and decision making and explores both sharp-end and latent factors contributing to harm and poor quality outcomes. It is intended to be a resource for all healthcare practitioners that interact with the surgical patient. The first section presents foundational principles of safety science and related social science. The second exposes barriers to achieving optimal surgical outcomes a
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(xlvii,909pages): illustrations
ISBN: 9783319440101
Index Number: RD1
CLC: R619
Contents: The Burning Platform: Improving Surgical Quality and Keeping Patients Safe -- Risk Factors and Epidemiology of Surgical Safety -- Concepts and Models of Safety, Resilience, and Reliability -- Surgery through a Human Factors and Ergonomics Lens -- The Relationship between Teamwork and Patient Safety -- Enterprise and Human Factors Risk Management in Healthcare -- The Patient Experience: An Essential Component of High-Value Care and Service -- Patients and Families as Co-Producers of Safe and Reliable Outcomes -- Tools and Strategies for Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Safety -- New