Making healthcare safe : the story of the patient safety movement / Lucian L. Leape.
Leape, Lucian L.
2021
RA969.9
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Title Making healthcare safe : the story of the patient safety movement / Lucian L. Leape.
Author Leape, Lucian L.
ISBN 9783030711238 (electronic bk.)
3030711234 (electronic bk.)
9783030711245 (print)
3030711242
3030711250
9783030711252
3030711226
9783030711221
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71123-8
Published Cham : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-71123-8 doi
Call Number RA969.9
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.110289
Summary This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement's founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today's modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve.
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Available in Other Form MAKING HEALTHCARE SAFE.
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Part I: In the Beginning
The Hidden Epidemic
It's Not Bad People
Changing the System
Coming Together
Part II: Institutional Responses
We Can Do This
Who Will Lead?
A Community of Concern
When the IOM Speaks
The Government Responds
Setting Standards
Enforcing Standards
Partners in Progress
Going Global
Just Do It
Spreading the Word
Publish or Perish
Part III: Getting to Work
Sleepy Doctors
A Conspiracy of Silence
Who Can I Trust?
Everyone Counts
Part IV: Creating A Culture of Safety
Make No Little Plans
Now the Hard Part.

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