Patient safety and hospital accreditation [[electronic resource] ] : a model for ensuring success / / Sharon Ann Myers
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Myers Sharon
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| Titolo: |
Patient safety and hospital accreditation [[electronic resource] ] : a model for ensuring success / / Sharon Ann Myers
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Springer Pub. Co., c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.11028/9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Hospitals - Safety measures |
| Medical errors - Prevention | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction to concepts of hospital accreditation and patient safety -- Milestones of hospital accreditation and patient safety in the United States -- A global view of patient safety and accreditation -- Universal "new" language of patient safety as part of the accreditation process -- Current challenges in healthcare -- The reliability factor and why adverse events still happen in accredited healthcare organizations -- Organizational architecture in relation to patient safety efforts ready, fire, aim -- Overview of the Myers model for patient safety and accreditation and its application in healthcare -- Design at the leadership level (system level) -- Design at the unit level (microsystem) -- Design at the individual level -- How the model assists nursing with accreditation and patient safety efforts -- Measurements and data integration -- Root cause analysis and failure mode and effects analysis -- Recommendations for accrediting bodies and healthcare organizations. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Improving the culture of safety in our health care institutions is an essential component of preventing or reducing errors as well as improving overall health care quality. This book presents the clinically tested Myer's Patient Safety Model for health care system leaders, middle managers, and administrators to build their patient safety program and to help sustain, renew, or obtain accreditation. The author provides detailed explanations of why medical errors still occur in accredited hospitals, and provides the much needed organization-wide steps to prevent these errors and enhance patient s |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Patient safety and hospital accreditation |
| ISBN: | 1-280-12874-7 |
| 9786613532626 | |
| 0-8261-0640-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791960503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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