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NEW! Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Health Care: Proactive Risk Reduction, Third Edition
Health care professionals around the world can use a proactive technique to reducing the risk of harm to individuals receiving care, treatment, and services. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Health Care: Proactive Risk Reduction, Third Edition illustrates the FMEA method to proactively identify and manage potential risks to individuals in all health care settings.
Your organization can adopt this proactive model to identify impending risks and develop a focal viewpoint of the causes and solutions to monitoring errors. This book includes the following:
• A logical, step-by-step guide through the FMEA process
• Processes that can be analyzed, re-designed and used by health care organizations worldwide
• How to prioritize critical factors of effects based on frequency or rarity
• How to conduct an analysis of functions, failure modes, effects, and causes in relationship to contributor factors
• How to implement and sustain continuous improvement
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Health Care: Proactive Risk Reduction, Third Edition
150 pages
Regular price: US$85
JCInsight discount price*: US$60
Item number FMEA60
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New from JCI:
Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospital, 4th Edition
Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals, 4th Edition provides the basis for accreditation of hospitals throughout the world, supplying organizations with the information they need to pursue or maintain patient safety, performance improvement, and accredited status starting 1 January 2011.
Important improvements to this edition include the following:
► “Improve the Safety of High-Alert Medications,” International Patient Safety Goal 3 (IPSG.3), covers all high-alert medications used by
the organization.
► The “Access to Care and Continuity of Care” chapter (ACC) has new requirements on the need to stabilize emergency patients prior
to transfer to another organization and the need to strengthen the integration of outpatient information for patients provided ongoing
care from multiple clinics.
► The “Patient and Family Rights” chapter (PFR) introduces a requirement that the organization offers or facilitates second opinions
when requested by the patient.
► The “Assessment of Patients” chapter (AOP) includes a new requirement regarding timely reporting of critical laboratory test results.
► The “Quality Improvement and Patient Safety” chapter (QPS) has expanded requirements on comprehensive risk management
framework as a tool for the reduction of adverse events and two new standards are intended to focus organizations on the
quality of the data they collect and use in their improvement activities.
► The “Prevention and Control of Infections” chapter (PCI) expands requirements regarding the reuse of single-use devices.
► The “Governance, Leadership, and Direction” chapter (GLD) calls for greater oversight of organizational contracts and independent
practitioners, as well as establishing a framework for ethical management to ensure that patient care is provided within business,
financial, ethical, and legal norms and that protects patients, their families, and employees.
Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospital, 4th Edition
Approximately 260 pages
US$149
Item number IAS400
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Coming in August 2010
Joint Commission International Accreditation: Getting Started, Second Edition
“How do we get started?” It’s a question almost every health care organization asks when leaders first contact Joint Commission International (JCI) about accreditation. This newly updated edition of Joint Commission International Accreditation: Getting Started is intended to answer this question and provide tips, tools, and strategies to facilitate an organization’s journey toward continuous standards compliance.
Fundamentally, Joint Commission International Accreditation: Getting Started, Second Edition is a primer on the accreditation process that offers a wide range of information, answers the most basic questions, and discusses the purpose of quality and safety improvement efforts. The four distinct sections of the book are the following:
• Section 1 provides an overview of accreditation and is important information for all individuals working in a health care organization to
know.
• Section 2 provides valuable information to executives about establishing a foundation for accreditation, allocating resources, and
participating in the on-site survey.
• Section 3 offers information for the quality/accreditation specialist about the different activities involved in preparing for accreditation
and how to structure performance improvement activities to achieve continuous standards compliance.
• Section 4 targets all health care staff—specifically, the frontline workers—seeking information on their role in the accreditation process
and how to effectively navigate the on-site survey.
New to this edition:
• A comprehensive, updated review JCI’s accreditation process, including the fourth edition of the JCI Hospital standards, which were
published in July 2010 and are effective starting 1 January 2011
• A stronger emphasis on tracer methodology, the key element in JCI’s accreditation process, including forms and tools that can help
organizations use tracer methodology to assess their performance on an ongoing basis
• A greater focus on creating a culture of safety to support accreditation
• Further details about using data to improve performance
• New and updated case studies
• A complete set of Online Extras
Joint Commission International Accreditation: Getting Started, Second Edition
Approximately 150 pages
US$85
Item number JCIGS10
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