Recent reports in the literature have highlighted the importance of safety in affecting outcome in patient morbidity and mortality. This timely issue covers all of the issues affecting safety in the critical care and intensive care units, and emergency department, including training, medication, regulations, infection control, electronic medical records, and system organization. The overall aim is to reduce medical errors.
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1. Defining and Measuring Patient Safety (Pronovost) 2. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis: Application to Critical Care (Hansen-Flaschen) 3. An Irreplaceable Safety Culture (Render and Hirschorn) 4. Critical Care Organization (Chang) 5. The Electronic Medical Record, Safety, and Critical Care (Bria and Shabot) 6. Management of the Critically Ill Patient in the Emergency Department: Focus on Safety Issues (Goldstein) 7. Medical Safety and Transfusion Errors in the ICU and Beyond (Hussain and Kao) 8. Managing Infection in the Critical Care Unit : How Can Infection Control Make the ICU Safe? (Ost and Shulman) 9. Safety in Training and Learning in the Intensive Care Unit (Heffner) 10. Can Regulation Improve Safety in Critical Care? (Marinelli) 11. The Future of Critical Care (Angus)
