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Patient unit safety and care quality :

by Tzeng, Huey-Ming,
Additional authors: Yin, Chang-Yi, -- 1944-
Published by : Nova Biomedical Books, (New York :) Physical details: xxiii, 329 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ISBN:9781604566703 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1604566701 (hardcover : alk. paper). Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Demanding a safe hospital stay -- The caring philosophy in acute hospital settings -- No safety, no quality: initiatives for promoting patient safety in hospitals -- Problematic patient safety areas in hospitals -- Inpatient falls -- Health care-associated pressure ulcers -- Serious injury or death in physical restraints or seclusion -- Inpatient suicide -- Medication errors -- Transfusion errors -- Wrong-site surgery -- Treatment delays -- Operative and postoperative errors and complications -- Health care-associated infections -- The impact of hospital human resource management on patient outcomes -- Unsafe design of patient rooms -- Say NO to poor care safety I: poor communication among health care providers -- Say NO to poor care safety II: incorrect patient identification in the process of providing care -- Learning the facts from research I: the family involvement culture in the US hospital environment -- Learning the facts from research II: historical human resource issues related to hospital nursing -- Learning the facts from research III: the linkage between nurse staffing and inpatient fall rates.

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