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Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings

Human Factors, Team Psychology, and Patient Safety in a High Stakes Environment
2nd ed. 2011

von: Michael St.Pierre, Gesine Hofinger, Cornelius Buerschaper, Robert Simon
82,38 €
Verlag:	Springer
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	28.06.2011
ISBN/EAN:	9783642197000
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	346

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Titelbeschreibung

Critical situations in acute and emergency care are one of the great clinical challenges because of the uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress that are involved. This book provides a comprehensive outline of all the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. Following an initial section discussing the basic principles of human behavior and decision making, the various influences on safe patient care are discussed in depth. These are divided into three interacting groups: individual factors, team factors, and organizational factors. Relevant psychological theories are carefully examined, and case studies and descriptions of proven strategies help to ground these theories in daily practice. This newly revised edition, in which each chapter has been enlarged and updated, will help both physicians and non-physicians to better understand the principles of human behavior and decision making in critical situations and thus to provide safer treatment.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Basic Principles: Error, Complexity, and Human Behavior: The Human Factors: Errors and Skills.- The Challenge of Acute Healthcare.- The Nature of Error.-The Psychology of Human Action. Part II: Individual Factors of Behavior: Human Perception: the Way.- We See Things.-Information Processing and Mental Models: World Views.-Goals and Plans: Turning Points for Success.-Attention: in the Focus of Consciousness.-Stress.-Strategies for Action: Ways to Achieve Good Decisions. Part III: The Team: The Key to Success: Teamwork.-Speech is Golden: Communication.-Leadership Part IV: The Organization: Organizations and Human Error.-Reliable Acute Care Medicine.

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Critical situations in acute and emergency care are one of the great clinical challenges. The nature of such care, involving uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress, makes this domain particularly vulnerable to errors in patient treatment. It has been increasingly acknowledged over the past decade that safe practice in these circumstances depends on a thorough understanding of the sources of human error.Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings is unique in providing a comprehensive outline of all the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. This newly revised edition has emerged from a long-standing cooperation between clinicians and psychologists, who have worked together again to enlarge and update each chapter. The strengths of the two professions have been blended into a readily accessible text which will help both physicians and non-physicians to better understand the principles of human behavior and decision making in critical situations and thus to avoid errors and provide safer treatment.

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A comprehensive outline of issues relevant to error prevention and safe practice in the acute and emergency health care settingAll chapters enlarged and updated since the first editionIncludes case reports and descriptions of proven strategies that help to ground the psychological theory in daily practiceBlends the strengths of clinicians and psychologists into a readily accessible text that will assist both physicians and non-physiciansIncludes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras