Understanding Patient Safety

Understanding Patient Safety, 3rd Edition, is a textbook that introduces fundamental principles regarding patient safety and medical errors. The work outlines how healthcare environments recognize operational hazards and implement systemic protections.

Coverage examines specific forms of clinical error, including those involving surgery, medications, diagnosis, infections, and patient transitions or handoffs. The text connects these issues to practical solutions, discussing the establishment of incident reporting systems and the cultivation of an institutional culture of safety.

To aid learning and review, the volume integrates high-yield cases, analytical discussions, instructional tables, graphics, key points, and reference lists.