Part I. Introduction
1. Guidelines and Safety Practices for Improving Patient Safety
2. Brief story of a clinical risk manager
3. Human Error and Patient Safety
4. Looking forward to the future
5. Safer care: shaping the future
6. Patients for Patient Safety
7. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety from the Perspective of Medical Residents
Part II. Background
8. Patient Safety in the World
9. Infection Prevention and Control
10. The patient journey
11. Adverse event investigation and risk assessment
12. From theory to real world integration: implementation science and beyond
Part III. Patient safety in the main clinical specialties
13. Intensive care and anesthesiology
14. "Safe Surgery Saves Lives"
15. Emergency Department Clinical Risk
16. Obstetric Safety Patient
17. Patient Safety in the main clinical specialties
18. Risks in Oncology and Radiation Therapy
19. Orthopaedics and Traumatology
20. Patient Safety & Risk Management in Mental Health
21. Pediatrics
22. Patient safety in the main clinical specialties: Radiology
23. Organ Donor Risk Stratification in Italy
24. Patient Safety in Laboratory Medicine
25. Ophthalmology
IV Healthcare organization
26. Community and Primary Care
27. Complexity science as a frame for understanding the management and delivery of high quality and safer care
28. Measuring clinical workflow to improve quality and safety
29. Shiftwork Organization
30. Non Technical Skills in Healthcare
31. Medication safety
32. Digital technology and usabililty and ergonomics of medical devices
33. Lessons learned from the Japan Obstetric Compensation System for Cerebral Palsy: A novel system of data aggregation, investigation, amelioration, and no-fault compensation
34. Coping with the COVID -19 pandemic: roles and responsibilities for preparedness.