In this issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Moises Auron, Michelle Brooks, and Suchita Shah Sata bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Inpatient Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Top experts address fundamental and current topics in quality of healthcare and patient safety in hospitalized patients, including discussions of the quality improvement process, high reliability organization, diagnostic errors, medication safety, and handoffs and care transitions, as well as clinical topics such as prevention of healthcare-acquired infections, pneumonia, heart failure, and more.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. CME Accreditation Page - p. iii 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. v 7. Contributors - p. vii 8. Foreword - p. xvii 9. Preface - p. xix 10. Quality Improvement Essentials and Teaching Quality Improvement - p. 957 11. Storytelling: How to Make Data Meaningful? - p. 969 12. High Reliability in Health Care - p. 981 13. Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Errors - p. 997 14. Interprofessional Collaboration: Creating Effective Teams within and across Organizations - p. 1009 15. Medication Safety in Acute Care Settings - p. 1029 16. Handoffs, Care Transitions, and Readmissions - p. 1047 17. Change Management and Human Factors - p. 1061 18. Costs, Value, and Variation - p. 1077 19. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection, Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection, and Clostridioides difficile Infection—An Overview - p. 1089 20. Accreditation and Health Policy and Their Impacts on Quality - p. 1103 21. Health Care Quality and Patient Safety in the Era of Artificial Intelligence - p. 1117 22. Administrative Harm - p. 1129 23. Equity in Quality Improvement: A Comprehensive Approach - p. 1145
In this issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Moises Auron, Michelle Brooks, and Suchita Shah Sata bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Inpatient Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Top experts address fundamental and current topics in quality of healthcare and patient safety in hospitalized patients, including discussions of the quality improvement process, high reliability organization, diagnostic errors, medication safety, and handoffs and care transitions, as well as clinical topics such as prevention of healthcare-acquired infections, pneumonia, heart failure, and more.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. CME Accreditation Page - p. iii 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. v 7. Contributors - p. vii 8. Foreword - p. xvii 9. Preface - p. xix 10. Quality Improvement Essentials and Teaching Quality Improvement - p. 957 11. Storytelling: How to Make Data Meaningful? - p. 969 12. High Reliability in Health Care - p. 981 13. Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Errors - p. 997 14. Interprofessional Collaboration: Creating Effective Teams within and across Organizations - p. 1009 15. Medication Safety in Acute Care Settings - p. 1029 16. Handoffs, Care Transitions, and Readmissions - p. 1047 17. Change Management and Human Factors - p. 1061 18. Costs, Value, and Variation - p. 1077 19. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection, Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection, and Clostridioides difficile Infection—An Overview - p. 1089 20. Accreditation and Health Policy and Their Impacts on Quality - p. 1103 21. Health Care Quality and Patient Safety in the Era of Artificial Intelligence - p. 1117 22. Administrative Harm - p. 1129 23. Equity in Quality Improvement: A Comprehensive Approach - p. 1145
