Patient Safety Toolbox
Professionals and others working in health care are striving daily to deliver best and safest care to their patients. However in the delivery of care risks occur and, unintentionally, errors are being made that sometimes have adverse consequences for the ones we are trying to help. These errors have, in a different manner, impact on the care providers involved as well.
This book is written by and for professionals and managers interested in improving safety on all levels of healthcare, anywhere in the world. It intends to provide some of the tools that can be of use in this endeavor. Emphasis is on providing examples for learning and describe some of the possibilities for improvement, about health care safety in general, measurement, analysis of (potential) safety failures and changes that have proven to be successful. The book can help in building a strategy and support culture for improving safety, a patient safety management system.