Description
Patient Safety: Emerging Applications of Safety Science
Authors: Claire Cox, Helen Hughes, Jordan Nicholls
Patient Safety: Emerging Applications of Safety Science is a groundbreaking resource that explores how emerging safety science theories can transform patient safety practices in healthcare settings. This essential guide combines real-world case studies, expert insights, and practical tools to help healthcare professionals, safety leads, and organizational leaders apply modern safety science principles in clinical and organizational contexts.
Written by leading experts in patient safety, human factors, and healthcare systems, this book covers key topics such as the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS), AcciMaps, Safety-II, After Action Review, thematic reviews, and more. It also emphasizes the critical role of patient and family engagement and change management in fostering safer care environments.
Whether you’re a healthcare professional, safety investigator, quality improvement leader, or educator, this book provides a practical roadmap for reducing avoidable harm, enhancing patient engagement, and embracing the evolving landscape of patient safety science.
Key topics include:
Applying PSIRF in real-world investigations
Human Factors approaches to safety analysis
AcciMaps and system-wide safety reviews
Safety-II and proactive safety practices
Walk-Through-Talk-Through methods for observation
Patient and family involvement post-incident
Transformative simulation for safety improvement
Table of Contents
Foreword by Ted Baker
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The theory of change management and its application in quality and safety
Chapter 3. The Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS): A Human
Factors approach to work system analysis
Chapter 4. Patient and family engagement following patient safety incidents
Chapter 5. Safety-II
Chapter 6. After Action Review
Chapter 7. Walk-Through-Talk-Through analysis to support safety and improvement
activity: A Human Factors approach to observations
Chapter 8. Accimaps
Chapter 9. Transformative simulation: To patient safety and beyond
Chapter 10. Thematic reviews in patient safety
Chapter 11. Conclusion
Ideal for:
Patient safety specialists, healthcare managers, clinicians, risk managers, quality improvement teams, and anyone invested in advancing safer healthcare systems.
