Patient Safety:

Achieving a New Standard for Care

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Size: 550 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:2004

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Authors:
Philip Aspden, Janet M. Corrigan, Julie Wolcott, Shari M. Erickson, Editors, Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety
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Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe.

To achieve this, a new health care delivery system is needed a system that both prevents errors from occurring, and learns from them ...
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Front Matter	i-xxii
Executive Summary	1-28	(skim)
1 Introduction	29-44	(skim)
PART I: BUILDING THE NATIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE	45-51	(skim)
2 Components of a National Health Information Infrastructure	52-95	(skim)
3 Federal Leadership and Public-Private Partnerships	96-126	(skim)
4 Health Care Data Standards	127-168	(skim)
PART II: ESTABLISHING COMPREHENSIVE PATIENT SAFETY PROGRAMS	169-172	(skim)
5 Comprehensive Patient Safety Programs in Health Care Settings	173-199	(skim)
6 Adverse Event Analysis	200-225	(skim)
7 Near-Miss Analysis	226-246	(skim)
PART III: STREAMLINING PATIENT SAFETY REPORTING	247-249	(skim)
8 Patient Safety Reporting Systems and Applications	250-278	(skim)
9 Standardized Reporting	279-316	(skim)
Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members	317-326	(skim)
Appendix B: Glossary and Acronym List	327-340	(skim)
Appendix C: Examples of Federal, State, and Private Sector Reporting Systems	341-426	(skim)
Appendix D: Clinical Domains for Patient Safety	427-429	(skim)
Appendix E: Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System: Letter Report	430-470	(skim)
Appendix F: Quality Improvement and Proactive Hazard Analysis Models: Deciphering a New Tower of Babel	471-508	(skim)
Appendix G: Australian Incident Monitoring System Taxonomy	509-510	(skim)
Index	511-528	(skim)

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Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe.

To achieve this, a new health care delivery system is needed a system that both prevents errors from occurring, and learns from them when they do occur. The development of such a system requires a commitment by all stakeholders to a culture of safety and to the development of improved information systems for the delivery of health care. This national health information infrastructure is needed to provide immediate access to complete patient information and decision-support tools for clinicians and their patients. In addition, this infrastructure must capture patient safety information as a by-product of care and use this information to design even safer delivery systems. Health data standards are both a critical and time-sensitive building block of the national health information infrastructure.

Building on the Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Patient Safety puts forward a road map for the development and adoption of key health care data standards to support both information exchange and the reporting and analysis of patient safety data.