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BL
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585378
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b414597
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| Title & Author
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Patient safety in emergency medicine /\ [edited by] Pat Croskerry ... [et al.]
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,, c2009
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xvii, 428 p. :: ill. ;; 29 cm
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| ISBN
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9780781777278 (alk. paper)
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: 0781777275 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The nature of emergency medicine -- The history of safety in health care -- Patient safety and continuous quality improvement-a user's guide -- A safe culture in the emergency department -- Sensemaking, high-reliability organizing, and resilience -- Information flow and problem solving -- The healthy emergency department -- Approaches to understanding success and failure -- Developing taxonomies for adverse events in emergency medicine -- Principles of incident reporting -- Incident monitoring in the emergency department -- Reporting and investigating events -- Critical processes in the emergency department -- Human factors engineering and safe systems -- Emergency department design and patient safety: tracking the trade-offs -- Medical informatics and patient safety -- Laboratory error and the emergency department -- Ensuring reliable follow-up of critical test results in the emergency department setting -- Radiology in the emergency department: patient safety issues with digital imaging -- Medication safety in health care systems -- Medication safety in the emergency department -- Emergency department overcrowding, patient flow, and safety -- Coordinating critical care from the emergency department to the intensive care unit -- Discharging safely from the emergency department -- Teams and teamwork in emergency medicine -- Communication in emergency medical teams -- Teamwork in medicine: crew resource management and lessons from aviation -- Authority gradients and communication --
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Transitions in care: safety in dynamic environments -- Critical decision making in chaotic environments -- Critical thinking and reasoning in emergency medicine -- Cognitive and affective dispositions to respond -- Thinking in a crisis: use of algorithms -- Knowledge translation -- Procedures and patient safety -- Outcome feedback and patient safety -- Shiftwork, fatigue, and safety in emergency medicine -- Individual factors in patient safety -- Patient safety curriculum -- Medical simulation -- Morbidity and mortality conference and patient safety in emergency medicine -- The cognitive autopsy: gaining insight into diagnostic failure -- Training for patient safety in invasive procedures: a novel use of real clinical video clips -- A health care advocate's journey -- Disclosure of error : apologies -- Health care providers: the second victims of medical error -- The role of licensing boards and regulatory agencies in patient safety -- International perspectives on regulation of patient safety in the emergency care setting -- Patient safety and the liability crisis -- Blunt end approaches to patient safety: the joint commission's national patient safety goals and other approaches -- The department chair's role in developing a safe emergency department -- Leadership behaviors and safety in the emergency department -- Leadership in the management and design of safe, reliable systems -- Nursing leadership for safety -- Forging a path safety
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| Subject
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Emergency medical services
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Emergency medicine
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Patients-- Safety measures
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Medical errors-- Prevention
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Emergency Medical Services-- organization administration
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Medical Errors-- prevention control
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Safety Management-- methods
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| LC Classification
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RA645.5.P377 2009
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| NLM classification
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WX215P298 2009
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| Added Entry
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Croskerry, Pat
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