First, do less harm [electronic resource] : confronting the inconvenient problems of patient safety / edited by Ross Koppel and Suzanne Gordon.

9780801464072 (electronic bk.)
0801450772
9780801450778

Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012.

English

1 online resource (viii, 290 p.) : ill.

R729.8 .F57 2012eb

610.289

Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of dollars. Despite (and sometimes because of) new medical information technology and numerous well-intentioned initiatives to address these problems, threats to patient safety remain, and in some areas are on the rise. In First, Do Less Harm, twelve health care professionals and researchers plus two former patients look at patient safety from a variety of perspectives, finding many of the proposed solutions to be inadequate or impractical. Several contributors to this book attribute the failure to confront patient safety concerns to the influence of the "market model" on medicine and emphasize the need for hospital-wide teamwork and greater involvement from frontline workers (from janitors and aides to nurses and physicians) in planning, implementing, and evaluating effective safety initiatives.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Culture and politics of health care work.

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