Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement 3030711226, 9783030711221

The Art of Patient Safety 9789528015864, 9789528050087

Patient safety is first and foremost the key value of healthcare. Strengthening patient safety requires a proactive pati

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The Story of an Epoch Making Movement 9780367194789, 9780429202704

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The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan 9781785333958

In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailme

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Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety 9780520946309

Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisoning

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Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety 9780520266063, 9780520232921, 0520266064

Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisoning

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Making Supper Safe: One Man's Quest to Learn the Truth about Food Safety 9781605293097, 9781609614126, 1609614127

Food recalls have become so ubiquitous we hardly even notice them. The massive peanut salmonella contamination of 2008-2

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The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Policy Making and Patient Care 9781501714573

Without lobbying efforts and broader public understanding of what’s at stake, a system now functioning far better than m

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Co-Creating Safety: Healing the Fragile Patient 2020920086, 0988378809, 9780988378803

Some patients are crippled by fear and anxiety. To help the 50 percent of patients who drop out of therapy before they h

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Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in Healthcare: A Case-Based Approach [1 ed.] 9783030558284, 9783030558291

This text uses a case-based approach to share knowledge and techniques on how to operationalize much of the theoretical

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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic 9780226064000

The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understoodto be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media

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