Beyond the Checklist

by Bonnie Blair O'Connor, Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall

Book Overview

The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible financial and human toll of medical errors and injuries that harm rather than heal?

Beyond the Checklist argues that lives could be saved and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478294
• ISBN13: 9780801478291
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher