Your patient safety survival guide : how to protect yourself and others from medical errors / Gretchen LeFever Watson ; foreword by Leah Binder.

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"Gretchen LeFever Watson delivers a patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety movement so that millions of unnecessary illnesses and deaths in hospitals, outpatient facilities, and nursing homes can be avoided. She provides key safety habits that people must learn to recogniz...

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Main Author: Watson, Gretchen LeFever, 1960- (Author)
Other Authors: Binder, Leah (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
Edition:First paperback edition.
Subjects:
Medical errors > Prevention.
Patients > Medical care > Safety measures.
Hospitals > Safety measures.
Cross infection > Prevention.
Diagnostic errors > Prevention.
Patient advocacy.
Patient education.
Physician and patient.
Physical Description:xvii, 204 : illustration ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
How to protect yourself and others from medical errors
Format: Book
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"Gretchen LeFever Watson delivers a patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety movement so that millions of unnecessary illnesses and deaths in hospitals, outpatient facilities, and nursing homes can be avoided. She provides key safety habits that people must learn to recognize so they can be sure hospital personnel use them during every patient encounter. She also explains how addressing the most common safety problems will set the stage for tackling a wide range of issues, including healthcare's role in the overuse of opiate painkillers and its related heroin epidemic."--Amazon.com.
Call Number:R729.8 .W38 2019
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1538127474
9781538127476