A how-to book for creating patient-caregiver relationships that improve patient safety. The book aids health care professionals in understanding how patients and families can partner with practitioners to reduce medical errors and how practitioners can mitigate the effects of mistakes when they do occur. It helps health care professionals recognize and overcome barriers that inhibit consumer involvement in patient safety improvement. It also provides valuable advice on how to surmount legal concerns associated with patient/practitioner collaboration. The book is filled with advice, templates, and other solutions to problematic safety issues, such as overcoming the culture of individual accountability that can inhibit collaboration; introducing strategies and techniques for patients to safely navigate the health care system; breaking through barriers caused by low health literacy; overcoming legal, cultural, and regulatory issues that affect information sharing and disclosure, and mending an adversarial patient/caregiver relationship through patient-centered care and transparency.

Engaging Patients as Safety Partners

Medical Books

Patrice L. Spath

Administration & Medicine Economics

American Hospital Association

This is a book about performance excellence, which uses the Baldrige criteria as a framework for getting there. As Spath indicates, "the criteria stimulate organizational excellence without being prescriptive.

Leading your Healthcare Organization to Excellence

Health Administration Press

Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management, Fourth Edition

Kenneth A. DeVane

Gateway to Healthcare Management

Health Care Quality Management Student Workbook 4th edition. Written by Patrice L. Spath

Health Care Quality Management Student Workbook

Ingram

Covers contemporary principles and practices of quality management. All chapters have been updated with new real-life examples and references, web resources, student learning opportunities, and other current topics

Fundamentals in Healthcare Quality Management, 5th Edition

Brown-Spath & Associates

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