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Your Patient Safety Survival Guide - How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors (Paperback)
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Your Patient Safety Survival Guide - How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors (Paperback)
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Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United
States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will
die as a result. Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson's definitive guide
empowers patients to be patient safety advocates. It takes a
village to combat preventable errors and omissions that cause
millions of deaths and sickness in our nation's hospitals and care
facilities. Although most of these deaths are due to human and
system errors-not faulty medical decisions or diagnoses-this annual
death toll-as well as the millions of additional incidents of
survivable patient harm-could be cut in half through consistent use
of simple and nearly cost-free safety behaviors. In Your Patient
Safety Survival Guide, Gretchen LeFever Watson delivers a
patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety
movement so that millions of unnecessary illnesses and deaths in
hospitals, outpatient facilities, and nursing homes can be avoided.
She provides key safety habits that people must learn to recognize
so they can be sure hospital personnel use them during every
patient encounter. She also explains how addressing the most common
safety problems will set the stage for tackling a wide range of
issues, including healthcare's role in the overuse of opiate
painkillers and its related heroin epidemic. Watson's call for a
more sensible societal response to medical and human error in
hospitals promotes a timely and full disclosure of all mistakes-an
approach that has been proven to accelerate the emotional recovery
of everyone affected by patient safety events while also reducing
the financial burden on hospitals, providers, and patients. Readers
will learn how to: * Change behavior to catch medical errors before
they result in illness or death. * Prevent the spread of dangerous
infections in hospitals and other care facilities. * Leverage the
power of basic safety/hygiene habits. * Eliminate mistakes during
surgery and other invasive procedures. * Avoid medication errors
and the overuse of opiates * Raise awareness and inspire civic
action in their communities.
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