Patient safety : crossing the chasm from legal and regulatory compliance -- Laws and regulations on patient safety -- Medical error reduction initiatives among accreditation and standard setting organizations -- Failure modes and effective analysis (FMEA) : the risks and the rewards in healthcare -- Medical error reduction in the healthcare field : voluntary and regulatory oversight -- Evidence based outcome information, standards of care, and failure to achieve patient safety compliance -- Creation and preservation of reports, data, and device evidence in medical error situations -- Claims management risks when dealing with patient safety events -- Full disclosure -- Patient safety in human research -- Medical errors reporting : maintaining confidentiality in the face of litigation -- Managing patient safety compliance with health professionals -- Planning for the future.
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Written for virtually every professional and leader in the health care field, as well as students who are preparing for careers in health services delivery, this book presents a framework for developing a patient safety program, shows how best to examine events that do occur, and reveals how to ensure that appropriate corrective and preventative actions are reviewed for effectiveness.