Título: Your Patient Safety Survival Guide
Autor: Gretchen LeFever Watson
Sinopse: Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson's definitive guide empowers patients to be patient safety advocates. It takes a village to combat preventable errors and omissions that cause millions of deaths and sickness in our nations hospitals and care facilities. Although most of these deaths are due to human and system errorsnot faulty medical decisions or diagnosesthis annual death tollas well as the millions of additional incidents of survivable patient harmcould be cut in half through consistent use of simple and nearly cost-free safety behaviors. In Your Patient Safety Survival Guide, Gretchen LeFever Watson delivers a patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety movement so that millions of unnecessary illnesses and deaths in hospitals, outpatient facilities, and nursing homes can be avoided. She provides key safety habits that people must learn to recognize so they can be sure hospital personnel use them during every patient encounter. She also explains how addressing the most common safety problems will set the stage for tackling a wide range of issues, including healthcares role in the overuse of opiate painkillers and its related heroin epidemic. Watsons call for a more sensible societal response to medical and human error in hospitals promotes a timely and full disclosure of all mistakesan approach that has been proven to accelerate the emotional recovery of everyone affected by patient safety events while also reducing the financial burden on hospitals, providers, and patients. Readers will learn how to: Change behavior to catch medical errors before they result in illness or death. Prevent the spread of dangerous infections in hospitals and other care facilities. Leverage the power of basic safety/hygiene habits. Eliminate mistakes during surgery and other invasive procedures. Avoid medication errors and the overuse of opiates Raise awareness and inspire civic action in their communities.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Your Patient Safety Survival Guide”, de Gretchen LeFever Watson, publicado pela editora Rowman & Littlefield, em 2017 e com 223 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Rowman & Littlefield
Páginas: 223
Ano: 2017
Edição:
Linguagem: eng
ISBN: 1538102102
ISBN13: 9781538102107
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Rowman & Littlefield oferecem uma experiência de leitura que combina rigor documental e narrativa envolvente, com temas que vão da história militar e política a investigações culturais e ambientais. O catálogo sugere um interesse por assuntos que exploram arquivos secretos, biografias complexas e estudos interdisciplinares, muitas vezes com um tom investigativo e detalhado. Há obras que convidam o leitor a mergulhar em contextos históricos e sociais, como espionagem na Segunda Guerra Mundial ou debates contemporâneos sobre religião e meio ambiente. O ritmo das obras varia entre análises densas e relatos mais acessíveis, atendendo a leitores que buscam tanto aprofundamento quanto clareza na exposição dos fatos. A diversidade do catálogo permite encontrar títulos que unem pesquisa acadêmica a histórias humanas, com abordagens que podem ser tanto mais narrativas quanto mais informativas.
