Understanding Patient Safety

<strong>Understanding Patient Safety</strong> addresses the core systems and clinical issues involved in minimizing medical error and optimizing patient safety ... » 

Understanding Patient Safety addresses the core systems and clinical issues involved in minimizing medical error and optimizing patient safety -- from organizational principles -- to new and evolving issues such as digital and bar code prescribing for medications.Understanding Patient Safety is the essential book for anyone trying to learn the key clinical, organizational, and systems issues in patient safety. Written in a lively, accessible style by one of the world's leaders in the field of medical mistakes (and a bestselling author), it is brimming with remarkable cases and analyses, as well as up-to-date tables, graphics, references and tools - all designed to introduce the patient safety field to medical, nursing, pharmacy, hospital administration and other trainees, and to be the go-to book for experienced clinicians and non-clinicians alike. «