Oxford Professional Practice: Handbook of Patient Safety

Every day, doctors are faced with the challenge of keeping the people they treat safe and free from harm. Patient safety is a relatively new field of study, but the field is expanding and there is now better understanding of what is needed to measure and achieve safety for patients.

The Handbook of Patient Safety will empower doctors, nurses and other professionals to be able to develop safe clinical processes that allow proactive management and minimisation of risk, so that people are not harmed when they receive clinical care. It gives the rationale for patient safety, the theories behind the science of patient safety and then the practical methods that frontline staff can use on a daily basis to decrease harm.

Pocket sized and practical, this handbook is the ideal guide to support frontline staff and trainees, as well as all allied professionals in the name of patient safety. It reflects the World Health Organization's Patient Safety Curriculum and is written by international experts in their field who have specialist interests and direct expertise in dealing with patient safety issues. This book will demystify what is often seen as a complex topic, helping doctors understand the methods needed to provide safe care.

• Part 1 Introduction to science and theory of patient safety


• 1: Peter Lachman and John Fitzsimons: The Rationale and science of Patient Safety


• 2: Ahmeda Ali and John Fitzsimons: The Culture and system of Patient Safety


• 3: Blair L. Sadler and Peter Lachman: Transparent Leadership for safety


• 4: John Brennan, Eugene Nelson, Sibylle Erdmann and Margaret Murphy: Codesigning for Safety and Patients Leading for Safety


• 5: James F O'Mahony: The Economics of Patient Safety


• 6: Patricia O'Connor: Developing a Safe Clinical Team


• 7: David Crosby and Peter Lachman: Communicating to be Safe


• 8: Eoin Fitzgerald and Peter Lachman: Situation Awareness and patient safety


• 9: Thomas Jun and Sue Hignett: Practical Application of Human Factors and ergonomics to Improve Safety


• 10: Uma Kotagal and Peter Lachman: Reliability Theory and its application in daily work and standardisation


• 11: Kate Churruca, Robyn Clay-Williams, Janet C Long, Louise A Ellis and Jeffrey Braithwaite: Resilience Theory, Complexity Science and Safety 2


• Part 2 Practical application and methodologies of patient safety


• 12: Jason Leitch and Thomas Lamont: Measuring Patient Safety at a System, Organisation and National Level


• 13: Jane Runnacles and John Fitzsimons: How to Measure Patient Safety on the Front Line


• 14: Peter Lachman, Susanne O'Reilly, Michael Marx and John Brennan: Improving to be Safe


• 15: Adrian Plunkett: Learning from Success to be safer


• 16: Kevin Stewart and Rachel Pool: Investigating and learning from Adverse Events


• 17: Mark O'Brien and Pallavi Bradshaw: Open Disclosure


• 18: Kris Vanhaecht: Caring for the Caregivers - The Second Victim


• Part 3 Translating theory to clinical practice


• 19: Christopher Cornue: Safety and information technology


• 20: Frank Frederico: Enabling Medication Safety


• 21: James Hoffman and Kristen Hughes: Paediatric medication safety


• 22: Rob Cunney: Preventing and Decreasing Infections


• 23: Rob Cunney: Sepsis and Antimicrobial stewardship


• 24: Anita Jayadev, Karen Britton and Shefal Patel:: Detecting and Limiting Deterioration


• 25: Tricia Woodhead and Gail Nielsen: Preventing and Limiting Diagnostic Error


• 26: John Brennan: Safety in Primary Care and General Practice


• 27: Damian Roland and Jay Banerjee: Safety in the Emergency Department


• 28: Anita Jayadev and Sean Harding: Safety in Outpatients and Ambulatory Care


• 29: Rob Bethune: Safety in the operating theatre


• 30: Jane Runnacles: Safety in Paediatrics and Child Health


• 31: David Crosby: Safety in Maternity and Women's Health


• 32: Daniel Hayes: Safety in Mental Health


• 33: Kevin Rooney and Suying Ong: Safety in Intensive Care


• 34: Kirstyn James: Safety in Patients with Frailty and Complex Long-Term Conditions


• 35: Kieran Murray and Michael Marx: Safety in a multi-disciplinary team


• 36: Kevin O'Hare: Safety in the laboratory


• 37: Riccardo Trataglia, Micaela La Regina and Peter Lachman: Safety in a pandemic