Patient

Informed Consent | Patient Autonomy and Rights | Confidentiality | Healthcare Communication Tips | Risk Assessment &More

This volume begins with an overview of recent high-impact studies in the area of patient safety. Subsequent chapters discuss a broad range of topics, including retained surgical items, wrong site procedures, disruptive healthcare workers, interhospital transfers, risks of emergency department overcrowding, dangers of inadequate handoff communication, and the association between provider fatigue and medical errors.

Everything you need to deliver safe patient care or to improve patient safety in your organization

In this book, it is aimed at presenting an approach to patient-centered medicine from the beginning of life to the end of life.
Patient-centered medicine is not an illness-centered, a physician-centered, or a hospital-centered medicine approach.

Improve your case acceptance with proper patient counselling

Based on the tremendous interest in the first two volumes of " Patient Safety" series, this third volume follows a similar model of case-based learning. The goal is to share clinically relevant, practical knowledge that approximates experiences that busy practicing clinicians can relate to. Then, by using evidence-based approaches to present contemporary literature and potential contributing factors and solutions to various commonly encountered clinical patient safety scenarios, authors hope to give our readers the tools to help prevent similar occurrences in the future.

Master communication strategies to build trust, foster teamwork & improve patient care in healthcare settings.

Improving patient safety and the quality of healthcare poses many challenges, and information technology (IT) can support the measures necessary to address these. Unfortunately, the risk of adverse drug events (ADEs) rises alongside the increasing sophistication of the health IT systems incorporated into hospital environments.