"[The Patient Safety Handbook] cuts a wide swath through the discipline of patient safety, including principles, policies, ethics, and legal ramifications. It provides a "one-stop" resource for persons needing a reference covering the spectrum of patient safety. The chapter authors constitute a "who's who" of patient safety in terms of name recognition. The book is primarily text, with a few illustrations and tables in some of the chapters.

This is the best reference in patient safety available at this time. It should be of interest to a broad audience, including physicians, pharmacists, nurses, other healthcare providers, ethicists, policy-makers, and legal experts interested in patient safety and healthcare quality. It should be available to everyone interested in the patient safety movement."

--William R. Hendee, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Doody's Review Service

"The 69 international specialists who contribute to the Patient Safety Handbook offer practical guidance on implementing systems and processes to improve patient outcomes and advance patient safety. The handbook covers the full spectrum of patient safety and risk reduction, and discusses operational issues and the actual application of the principles of research, building upon the fundamentals of the science of safety...This book will find a place on the shelves of all health care sciences libraries..."

--Mark Spasser
Chief, Library and Information Services/Associate Professor
Jewish Hospital College of Nursing and Allied Health Library
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