Hospice : Patient Safety, Hospice Care in the United States, Pain Management, Hospice, Palliative Care, Elderly Care, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (2010, Trade Paperback)
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Patient safety, Hospice care in the United States, Pain management, Palliative care, Elderly care, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Advanced Health & Care, Father Eugeniusz Dutkiewicz SAC Hospice, MOLST, Cicely Saunders, Palliative sedation, Dean Foundation, Medical social work, Children's hospice, Hospice Journey, Our Lady's Hospice, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Balfour Mount, Russell and Fern de Greeff Hospice House, Kalighat Home for the Dying, Keech cottage, List of hospice programs, Symptomatic treatment, Helen & Douglas House Hospice for Children and Young Adults, Ira Byock, United Hospice of Rockland, Hospice chaplain. Excerpt: Patient safety is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. The frequency and magnitude of avoidable adverse patient events was not well known until the 1990s, when multiple countries reported staggering numbers of patients harmed and killed by medical errors. Recognizing that healthcare errors impact 1 in every 10 patients around the world, the World Health Organization calls patient safety an endemic concern. Indeed, patient safety has emerged as a distinct healthcare discipline supported by an immature yet developing scientific framework. There is a significant transdisciplinary body of theoretical and research literature that informs the science of patient safety. The resulting patient safety knowledge continually informs improvement efforts such as: applying lessons learned from business and industry, adopting innovative technologies, educating providers and consumers, enhancing error reporting systems, and developing new economic incentives. Greek physician treating a patient, ca. 480-470 BC (Louvre Museum, Paris, France)Millennia ago, Hippocrates recognized the...
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Hospice : Patient Safety, Hospice Care in the United States, Pain Management, Hospice, Palliative Care, Elderly Care, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross