After the Error is a collection of true stories from across Canada, and the first book anywhere to recognize what patients affected by medical errors, their families, and immediate healthcare providers have done to prevent others from enduring similar experiences. Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands, and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak out often do so at considerable emotional, psycholog…
Ce dépliant explique le rôle que vous et votre famille jouez en matière de sécurité lors du séjour de votre enfant à l'hôpital. Des conseils sont fournis sur les sujets suivants : prévention de l'enlèvement d'enfants, prévention du risque de coincement, prévention du risque d'entortillement ou d'étranglement de votre enfant dans le matériel d'hôpital, prévention des chutes, infections, plaies de pression, sommeil, utilisation d'Internet, sécurité des médicaments, jeux sécuritaires et sécurité a…
This pamphlet explains the risks of cytotoxic cancer treatments being taken at home and what precautions must be taken for you and those in contact with you to stay safe. Includes information on storage of the treatment, disposal of waste, interactions with others, and hospital samples.
Instructions for chemotherapy patients who experience extravasation during treatment are outlined.
Falls are one of the most common causes of injury.This pamphlet includes tips for making your home safer and general advice about fall prevention. Ask a family member or friend to help you work through this pamphlet and check off all the ways you can make your home safe and help prevent falls.
Falls are one of the most common causes of injury.This pamphlet includes info about who is at a higher risk of falling, what to do before coming to the hospital and while you are at the hospital, as well as falls prevention tips for visiting the hospital.
Estimates now suggest that 400,000 people die needlessly each year as a result of healthcare error (James, 2014). While the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ, 2013) has reported some progress, with fewer deaths from hospital-acquired infections and falls, much work remains to be done to reach zero harm. One approach to reducing harm has been to institute high reliability into healthcare.
Falls are the leading cause of injury among older Canadians. This pamphlet includes a checklist to help you find out if you are at risk of falling. Tips to prevent falls are included.
This book delivers a comprehensive review of human factors principles as they relate to surgical care inside and outside of the operating theatre. It provides multi-dimensional human-centered insights from the viewpoint of academic surgeons and experts in human factors engineering to improve workflow, treatment time, and outcomes. To guide the reader, the book begins broadly with Human Factors Principles for Surgery then narrows to a discussion of surgical specialties and scenarios. Each chapte…
This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings, and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Positing good air quality as critical to patient and staff well-being, it identifies disease-carrying microbes, pollutants, and other airborne toxins and their health risks, and provides localized interventions for reducing transmission of pathogens. Effective large-scale approaches to air quality control are also outline…
Le présent livret explique le rôle que jouent les patients et leurs familles au niveau de la sécurité au sein de la RSNE. Des lignes directrices sont fournies sur les sujets suivants : prévention des infections, nourriture apportée de la maison, prévention des chutes, objets personnels, sécurité incendie, inspection du matériel et sécurité générale. ; This pamphlet is a French translation of "Patient and Family Safety Information" pamphlet 1507. This pamphlet explains the role that patients and…