Making Healthcare Safe

The Story of the Patient Safety Movement

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Lucian L. Leape

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Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-05-29
Mått155 x 235 x 34 mm
Vikt882 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor450
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030711221

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Lucian L. Leape, MDImmediate Past Chair, Lucian Leape Institute for Healthcare ImprovementAdjunct Professor of Health PolicyHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthBoston, MA USALucian Leape, MD is a physician and professor at Harvard School of Public Health, who has been active in trying to improve the medical system to reduce medical error. In 1994 he had an article, "Error in Medicine," published in JAMA. In 1997, he testified before a subcommittee of the US Senate with his recommendations for improving medical safety.Leape is known as the father of the patient safety movement has spent the last 30 years of his working life campaigning for change in the American healthcare system. He travels the world to give talks and lectures, influencing many of the world's brightest medics.Leape is the Chair of the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation. The Institute, founded in 2007, is charged with defining strategic paths and calls to action for the field of patient safety, offering vision and context for the many efforts underway within health care, and providing the leverage necessary for change at the system level. Its members comprise national thought leaders with a common interest in patient safety whose expertise and influence are brought to bear as the Institute calls for the innovation necessary to expedite the work and create significant, sustainable improvements in culture, process, and outcomes critical to safer health care.

Part I: In the Beginning.- The Hidden Epidemic.- It's Not Bad People.- Changing the System.- Coming Together.- Part II: Institutional Responses.- We Can Do This.- Who Will Lead?.- A Community of Concern.- When the IOM Speaks.- The Government Responds.- Setting Standards.- Enforcing Standards.- Partners in Progress.- Going Global.- Just Do It.- Spreading the Word.- Publish or Perish.- Part III: Getting to Work.- Sleepy Doctors.- A Conspiracy of Silence.- Who Can I Trust?.- Everyone Counts.- Part IV: Creating A Culture of Safety.- Make No Little Plans.- Now the Hard Part