Patient Safety and Healthcare Improvement - Hardcover

by Kendrick Torrence (Editor)

Patient safety refers to a discipline that focuses on safety in health care by reporting, preventing, analyzing and mitigating errors and other types of unwanted harm that might result in adverse patient events. It is critical for providing high-quality vital healthcare services. Effective communication plays a crucial role in ensuring safety in healthcare. The provision of secure, effective and person-centered health care services requires the health services to be equitable, efficient and prompt. Leadership ability, qualified and skilled healthcare workers, clear policies, effective patient involvement, and data to support safety improvements are required for the successful implementation of patient safety methods. This book explores all the important aspects of patient safety and healthcare improvement in the present day scenario. From theories to research to practical applications, studies related to all contemporary topics of relevance to this area of medicine have been included herein. Students and experts actively engaged in patient safety and healthcare will find it full of crucial and unexplored concepts.