{"product_id":"first-do-less-harm-confronting-the-inconvenient-problems-of-patient-safety-hardcover","title":"First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoss Koppel\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSuzanne Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of dollars. Despite (and sometimes because of) new medical information technology and numerous well-intentioned initiatives to address these problems, threats to patient safety remain, and in some areas are on the rise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFirst, Do Less Harm\u003c\/i\u003e, twelve health care professionals and researchers plus two former patients look at patient safety from a variety of perspectives, finding many of the proposed solutions to be inadequate or impractical. Several contributors to this book attribute the failure to confront patient safety concerns to the influence of the \"market model\" on medicine and emphasize the need for hospital-wide teamwork and greater involvement from frontline workers (from janitors and aides to nurses and physicians) in planning, implementing, and evaluating effective safety initiatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral chapters in \u003ci\u003eFirst, Do Less Harm\u003c\/i\u003e focus on the critical role of interprofessional and occupational practice in patient safety. Rather than focusing on the usual suspects--physicians, safety champions, or high level management--these chapters expand the list of \"stakeholders\" and patient safety advocates to include nurses, patient care assistants, and other staff, as well as the health care unions that may represent them. \u003ci\u003eFirst, Do Less Harm \u003c\/i\u003ealso highlights workplace issues that negatively affect safety: including sleeplessness, excessive workloads, outsourcing of hospital cleaning, and lack of teamwork between physicians and other health care staff. In two chapters, experts explain why the promise of health care information technology to fix safety problems remains unrealized, with examples that are at once humorous and frightening. A book that will be required reading for physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, public health officers, quality and risk managers, healthcare educators, economists, and policymakers, \u003ci\u003eFirst, Do Less Harm\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with a list of twenty-seven paradoxes and challenges facing everyone interested in making care safe for both patients and those who care for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoss Koppel is on the faculty of the Sociology Department and School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, holds a faculty position at the RAND Corporation, and is the internal evaluator at Harvard Medical School as well as holding other professional affiliations. He is the author of several seminal publications on health IT in \u003ci\u003eJAMA \u003c\/i\u003eand other leading scientific journals. Suzanne Gordon is Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and was program leader of the Robert Wood Johnson-funded Nurse Manager in Action Program. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLife Support \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNursing against the Odds\u003c\/i\u003e, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eSafety in Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom Silence to Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eWhen Chicken Soup Isn't Enough\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Complexities of Care\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Cornell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47638588326147,"sku":"9780801450778","price":61.36,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/QXRMTkhBNkdoVms3U24wVnJwTXBldz09.webp?v=1768614705","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-au\/products\/first-do-less-harm-confronting-the-inconvenient-problems-of-patient-safety-hardcover","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}