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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457700803321

Autore

Dhillon B. S (Balbir S.), <1947, >

Titolo

Patient safety : an engineering approach / / B.S. Dhillon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2012

ISBN

0-429-06578-7

1-283-35061-0

9786613350619

1-4398-7434-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

610.28/9

Soggetti

Medical errors - Prevention

Patients - Safety measures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Author; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Patient Safety Mathematics; Chapter 3: Safety and Human Factors Basics; Chapter 4: Methods for Performing Patient Safety Analysis; Chapter 5: Patient Safety Basics; Chapter 6: Medication Safety and Errors; Chapter 7: Health Care Workers' Role and Safety and Falls; Chapter 8: Human Error in Various Medical Areas and Other Related Information; Chapter 9: Medical Device Safety and Errors; Chapter 10: Medical Device Usability; Chapter 11: Patient Safety Organizations, Data Sources, and Mathematical Models

Appendix: Bibliography-Literature on Patient SafetyBack Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Each year a vast sum of money is spent on health care around the globe and patient safety has become a serious global public health issue. Filled with up-to-date information, this book demonstrates how to handle patient safety-related problems by using methods developed in the area of engineering. It contains a chapter on mathematical concepts and another chapter on introductory material on safety and human factors considered essential to understand materials presented in subsequent chapters. The author's presentation covers topics in such a manner that readers will require no previous knowledge to understand



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