Vignettes in Patient Safety - Volume 4

Edited by Stanislaw P. Stawicki and Michael S. Firstenberg

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Abstract: Medical errors contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality across our healthcare institutions. Due to the increasing complexity of the modern medical practice, a perfect storm of regulatory, market, social, and technical factors, and other competing priorities, created an environment that is primed for patient safety lapses. The spectrum of contributing variables - ranging from minor errors that subsequently escalate, poor communication, and protocol/process non-compliance (just to name a few) - is extensive and solutions are only recently being described. As such, there is a growing body of research and experiences that can help provide an organized framework - based on best practices and evidence-based medical principles - for healthcare organizations to develop, implement, and embrace. Based on the tremendous interest in the initial three volumes of our Vignettes in Patient Safety series, this fourth volume follows a similar model of outlining a patient safety case based on experiences that many clinicians can relate to, and then discusses various factors that may have contributed to a medical error, complication, and/or poor outcome. Building on a problem-based clinical vignette, each chapter then outlines an evidence-based approach to present any related literature, pertinent evidence, and potential contributing factors and solutions to common patient safety occurrences. By focusing on some of the best practices, structured experiences, and objective approaches to medical error genesis, the authors and editors hopefully can lend some insights into how we can make healthcare encounters for all patients, across all settings, better and safer.

JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
ISBN: 978-1-83962-201-4
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Chapters in this book:

Combating Alarm Fatigue: The Quest for More Accurate and Safer Clinical Monitoring Equipment

Stanislaw P. Stawicki, James Nguyen, Kendra Davis and Giuseppe Guglielmello

Communication in Surgery for Patient Safety

Daniel Ojuka, Lydia Okutoyi and Frederick Otieno

Comprehensive and Live Air Purification as a Key Environmental, Clinical, and Patient Safety Factor: A Prospective Evaluation

Kathryn Colonna Worrilow, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Chad Brisendine, Lee Levicoff, Frank Ford, Beverly Snyder and Sherrine Eid

Dangers of Peripheral Intravenous Catheterization: The Forgotten Tourniquet and Other Patient Safety Considerations

Mini Parampreet Kaur Kaur, Claire M Rickard, Gregory Domer and Kevin R. Glover

Fundamentals of Medical Radiation Safety: Focus on Reducing Short-Term and Long-Term Harmful Exposures

Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Alex Alers, Philip N. Salen, Vikas Yellapu, Manish Garg, Nicholas Cardiges, Timothy Oskin and Jay Fisher

Introductory Chapter: Patient Safety is the Cornerstone of Modern Health-Care Delivery Systems

Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Gary G. Lu and Timothy Oskin

Patient Safety Culture in Portuguese Primary Care: Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Medical Office Survey

Margarida Eiras, Carina Silva and Ana Escoval

The Anatomy of Medication Errors

Vasiliki Kapaki

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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.75373

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