Oxford professional practice: handbook of patient safety / Peter Lachman.

PART 1: Introduction to science and theory of patient safety -- The rationale and science of patient safety -- The culture and system of patient safety -- Transparent leadership for safety -- Codesigning for safety and patients leading for safety -- The economics of patient safety -- Developing a safe clinical team -- Communicating to be safe -- Situation awareness and patient safety -- Practical application of human factors and ergonomics to improve safety -- Reliability theory and its application in daily work and standardisation -- Resilience theory, complexity science and safety 2 -- PART 2: Practical application and methodologies of patient safety -- Measuring patient safety at a system, organisation and national level -- How to measure patient safety on the front line -- Improving to be safe -- Learning from success to be safer -- Investigating and learning from adverse events -- Open disclosure -- Caring for the caregivers - the second victim -- PART 3: Translating theory to clinical practice -- Safety and information technology -- Enabling medication safety -- Paediatric medication safety -- Preventing and decreasing infections -- Sepsis and antimicrobial stewardship -- Detecting and limiting deterioration -- Preventing and limiting diagnostic error -- Safety in primary care and general practice -- Safety in the emergency department -- Safety in outpatients and ambulatory care -- Safety in the operating theatre – Safety in paediatrics and child health -- Safety in maternity and women's health -- Safety in mental health -- Safety in intensive care -- Safety in patients with frailty and complex long-term conditions -- Safety in a multi-disciplinary team -- Safety in the laboratory -- Safety in a pandemic.

"Every day clinicians are faced with the challenge of keeping the people they treat safe and free from harm while delivering the care they need. This task has be-come more difficult because of the increasing complexity of healthcare, especially related to chronic illness, and a continuously aging population"-- Provided by publisher.