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Case Studies in Patient Safety: Foundations for Core Competencies

Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

©2016  
ISBN: 9781449681548
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This unique compendium of case studies on patient safety – told from the perspective of the patient and family – illustrates 24 stories of preventable health care errors that led to irreparable patient harm.  The reader is guided through a structured analysis of the events, eliciting lessons learned and strategies for preventing similar events in the future.  Learning objectives for each case facilitate the reader’s development of a set of core competencies related to improving safety and quality of health care.
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    Chapter 1 It’s Hard to Kill a Healthy 15-Year-Old
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 2 Routine Appendectomy
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 3 The Origins of the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry
    into the National Health Service
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 4 Consent and Disclosure in Pediatric Heart
    Surgery
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 5 I’m Left in Fear: An Account of Harm in
    Maternity Care
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 6 A Routine Endoscopic Procedure
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 7 The Last Run: An Undiagnosed Heart Rhythm
    Disturbance
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 8 Improving Care for People with Intellectual
    Disability
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 9 A Cascade of Small Events: Learning from
    an Unexpected Postsurgical Death
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 10 Accidental Fall in a Hospital
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 11 Not Considered a Partner: A Mother’s Story
    of a Tonsillectomy Gone Wrong
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 12 Lost: A Patient’s Search for Answers for
    Intractable Pain
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 13 The Silence of the Hospital: Lessons on
    Supporting Patients and Staff After an Adverse
    Event
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 14 The Big Picture: A Terminally Ill Patient
    in a Fragmented System
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 15 Without a Heart: The Legal Sequelae of an
    Unexplained Hospital Death
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 16 Small Steps: From Medication Adjustment
    to Permanent Disability
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 17 The Definition of Alive: The Story of an
    Equivocal Birth
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 18 Not for IV Use: The Story of an Enteral
    Tubing Misconnection
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 19 Death Despite Known Drug Allergy
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 20 The Trial Meant for You: The Lifelong Medical
    Journey of a Child with a Complex Congenital
    Condition
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 21 Failure to Rescue
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 22 Unmonitored: A Postsurgical Narcotic Overdose
    in the Hospital
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 23 The Voice That Is Missing: A Mother’s
    Journey in Patient Safety Advocacy
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 24 When Healing Harms: Recovering from a Multisystem
    Traumatic Injury
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 25 Afterword
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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    Chapter 26 Appendix
    Author: Julie Johnson; Helen Haskell; Paul Barach

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