Research Catalog

Title

Patient safety : achieving a new standard for care / Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety, Board on Health Care Services ; Philip Aspden [and others], editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Aspden, Philip.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003131192

Description

xx, 528 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Medical records > Standards > United States
• Safety Management
• Medical Errors > prevention & control
• Patient Care > standards
• Medical informatics
• Information Services > standards
• Health Policy
• United States
• Medical errors > Data processing > Standards > United States
• Risk Management
• Policy Making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Building the national health information infrastructure -- 2. Components of a national health information infrastructure -- 3. Federal leadership and public-private partnerships -- 4. Health care data standards -- Pt. II. Establishing comprehensive patient safety programs -- 5. Comprehensive patient safety programs in health care settings -- 6. Adverse event analysis -- 7. Near-miss analysis -- Pt. III. Streamlining patient safety reporting -- 8. Patient safety reporting systems and applications -- 9. Standardized reporting -- Examples of federal, state, and private-sector reporting systems -- Clinical domains for patient safety -- Key capabilities of an electronic health record system : letter report -- Quality improvement and proactive hazard analysis models : deciphering a new tower of Babel -- Australian incident monitoring system taxonomy.

ISBN

0309090776 (hardcover)

LCCN

2004001869

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries