Sidney Dekker

Patient Safety (eBook, ePUB)

A Human Factors Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Written from a scientific, human factors

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040063576
• Artikelnr.: 69996349

Autorenporträt

About the author: Sidney Dekker (PhD, The Ohio State University, 1996) is Professor and Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He was previously Professor and Director of the Leonardo da Vinci Center for Complexity and Systems Thinking at Lund University, Sweden, and Professor of Community Health Science at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada. He has been Visiting Professor at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He recently became active as airline pilot, flying the Boeing 737.

Inhaltsangabe

Medical Competence and Patient Safety, The Problem of "Human Error" in
Healthcare. Cognitive Factors of Healthcare Work. New Technology,
Automation and Patient Safety. Safety Culture and Organizational Risk.
Practical Tools for Creating Safety. Accountability and Learning from
Failure. New Frontiers in Patient Safety: Complexity and Systems Thinking.