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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Health Care: Proactive Risk Reduction

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), a systematic approach to error prevention, helps you examine specific processes to identify failures before they happen, determine the consequences, and manage potential risks. This second edition offers the following special features: a step-by-step guide through FMEA, from identifying high- and low-risk situations to implementing and monitoring the new processes you develop; clear process summaries, tips, and keywords; and, real world examples in the book and accompanying CD-ROM that show how actual health care organizations use FMEA to lower their risks. Health care professionals can now use a proactive approach toward risk assessment and management activities so that patient care, treatment, and services can be designed or redesigned to prevent failure.

Failure Mode And Effects Analysis in Health Care: Proactive Risk Reduction

Health care leaders need to know how to achieve and sustain measurable quality and safety results organization wide. In this book, experts describe the most challenging issues facing health care leaders and provide guidance and suggestions on how to ensure excellence at the front lines of care.

Country Facts

Frost & Sullivan

Edited by internationally known infection control experts Barbara Moore Soule, RN, MPA, CIC, and Ziad A. Memish, MD, FRCPC, FACP, CIC, FIDSA, this book focuses on the growing crisis in infection control across the spectrum of health care organizations. It points to the need for health care organizations to assess and consider new approaches to infection control in their patient safety and quality improvement efforts. Special features include: examples of compliance with JCI's infection control standards; simple, straightforward tips on how to use JCI standards for overall performance improvement; examples of how to reduce health care - acquired infections; a comprehensive case study profiling the events surrounding and the lessons learned from the 2003 Hong Kong and Canadian outbreaks of SARS; and, examples showing how people and organizations worldwide are dealing with their local infection control issues.

Best Practices in Infection Control: An International Handbook

Joint Comission Resources

Hospital Documentation: Sample Policies, Procedures and Forms

Joint Commission Resources

Getting the Board on Board (5Pack): What Your Board Needs to Know About Quality and Patient Safety

A training kit that provides information and strategies to help health care organizations train and orient staff on EC issues and comply with Joint Commission training requirements. It includes a variety of training components, including a manual; CD slide presentations; quizzes; web links; and case studies.

Environment of Care Staff Training Kit: A Turnkey Approach

Physicians play a major role in the delivery of safe, quality health care. Their involvement in The Joint Commission's accreditation process is an important component to ensuring this care. Yet, many medical students are unaware of the Joint Commission and its vital role. Must-Have Information for Physicians About Quality and Patient Safety is a handy reference book that provides medical students and young professionals with an introduction to quality issues in health care and the Joint Commission's mission. With this book, readers will gain a better understanding of patient-safety risks and how they can contribute to an environment where patient safety is a priority. This book does the following: Summarizes the Joint Commission's accreditation process and the purpose of its standards and National Patient Safety Goals, Describes specific patient-safety challenges and how the Joint Commission helps organizations reduce them, Offers practical tips on how medical students and young professionals can improve the quality of patient care. Book jacket.

Must-Have Information for Physicians About Quality & Patient Safety

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