Studies in the US suggest that about 4% of hospital patients are
unintentionally harmed by treatment. These many thousands of
"accidents" have received little research attention.
This book assumes that medicine may benefit and learn from
approaches to safety in other areas and will be a core resource for
this topic. The role of new technologies, both as hazards and in
improving safety, is an essential new challenge which the book
addresses.
The chapters are ordered to accord with their principal emphasis,
beginning with conceptual foundations and moving towards safety
management.
The first chapter gives an overview of approaches to safety in the
psychological and organisational literature and provides essential
background information for readers who may not be familiar with the
safety literature. The next chapters demonstrate the need to take a
long, temporal perspective. Finally, two chapters reflect on the
nature of safety management and its particular application in
healthcare.
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