Practical Patient Safety

• Applies the principles of risk management gained in the aviation, nucleur and petrochemical industries to healthcare
• The highly accessible style covers the key techniques and principles of patient safety in a practical way
• Includes numerous case studies highlighting the importance of patient safety principles
• Contains checklists, help boxes and other strategies for minimising errors

Readership: Junior doctors, trainee surgeons, nurses and nurse practitioners, and hospital managers

John Reynard, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Department of Urology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Honorary Consultant Urologist to the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, UK, John Reynolds, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK, and Peter Stevenson, Commercial Airline Pilot and Honorary Patient Safety Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, UK

"The authors' last paragraph says 'Be brave. The fact that you have bought this book means you are in the vanguard of change'. Those bringing up the rear, who have not bought it, should borrow a copy from their more enlightened colleagues." - British Journal of Hospital Medicine

"This excellent volume delivers crucial information and advice, elegantly presented in a practical and trim format. Its 345 grams sit easily in the pocket of a white coat and to adapt a metaphor to recognise the importance of hand function, it punches well above its weight." - Journal of Surg Eng

1: The scale of the problem
2: Clinical errors: What are they?
3: Safety culture in high reliability organisations
4: Case studies
5: Error management
6: Communication failure
7: Situation awareness
8: Professional culture
9: When carers deliberately cause harm
10: Patient safety toolbox
11: Glossary
12: Conclusion
Appendices