Patient Safety: Emerging Applications of Safety Science (19 August 2024)

Summary

There are few resources and books for professionals within the patient safety sector that use case studies to model the practical application of theories of patient safety incident investigation. Exploring these theories, this text brings together contributors from a variety of academic and healthcare professions, alongside those with lived experience, to help you understand some of the emerging theories of safety science and their practical application.

The NHS’s approach to incident reporting in investigations, the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), has given rise to new-found opportunities and freedom of investigation and incident management. This book aims to explore emerging safety sciences by leading experts and the practical application of them in differing clinical and organisational contexts.

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Content

Patient Safety: Emerging Applications of Safety Sciences is written by people who work in patient safety, and with chapters on subjects such as System Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS), AcciMaps and Human Factors, this book is for everyone with an interest in how the landscape of patient safety is changing and how to apply good practice for the reduction of avoidable harm.

The impetus for this book comes from discussions and growth of the Patient Safety Management Network (PSMN). The PSMN is an informal voluntary network of patient safety professionals, created by and for patient safety managers, hosted on Patient Safety Learning’s online platform, the hub. Established in 2021, the PSMN has become a key forum for discussion about the implementation of PSIRF. It is a safe space for regular discussions about the new system-based approaches to investigations outlined in PSRIF and provides a valuable source and place to share experiences and good practice. Many of the case studies in this book come from members of PSMN.

 The table of contents for this book are as follows:

• Foreword, by Ted Baker
• Chapter 1- Introduction, by Claire Cox, Jordan Nicholls and Helen Hughes
• Chapter 2 - The theory of change management and its application in quality and safety, by Julie Storr
• Chapter 3 - The Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS): A Human
• Factors approach to work system analysis, by Paul Bowie and Helen Vosper
• Chapter 4 - Patient and family engagement following patient safety incidents, by Lauren Ramsey, Louise Pye and Jane O’Hara
• Chapter 5 - Safety-II, by Mark Sujan
• Chapter 6 - After Action Review, by Judy Walker
• Chapter 7 - Walk-Through-Talk-Through analysis to support safety and improvement
• activity: A Human Factors approach to observations, by Richard Brownhill and Paul Bowie
• Chapter 8 - Accimaps, by Jayne Wheway and Patrick Waterson
• Chapter 9 - Transformative simulation: To patient safety and beyond, by Philip Gurnett, Sharon Weldon, Ken Spearpoint and Andy Buttery
• Chapter 10 - Thematic reviews in patient safety, by Samantha Machen
• Chapter 11 – Conclusion, by Claire Cox, Jordan Nicholls and Helen Hughes