Patient Safety: Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer provides background on the patient safety movement, systems safety, human error and other key philosophies that support change and innovation in the reduction of medical error. The book draws from multidisciplinary areas within the acute care environment to share models that support the proactive changes necessary to provide safe care delivery. The publication discusses how the tenets of safety (described in the beginning of the book) can be actively applied in the field to make evidence, information and knowledge (EIK) sharing processes reliable, effective and safe. This is a wide-ranging and important book that is designed to raise awareness of the latent risks for patient safety that are present in the EIK identification, acquisition and distribution processes, structures, and systems of many healthcare institutions across the world. The expert contributors offer systemic, evidence-based improvement processes, assessment concepts and innovative activities to identify these risks to minimize their potential to adversely impact care. These ideas are presented to create opportunities for the field to design and use strategies that enable meaningful implementation and management of EIK. Their thoughts will enable healthcare staff to see EIK as a tangible element contributing toward sustainable patient safety improvements.

About the Author
Lorri Zipperer, Cybrarian, is the principal at Zipperer Project Management in Albuquerque, NM. Lorri was a founding staff member of the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) as the information project manager. Lorri is an American Hospital Association/NPSF Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship alumnus. She has been recognized by the US based organizations, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and the Medical Library Association (MLA), for her project work and writing exploring the roles of librarians in medical error reduction.

Reviews

'It goes without saying that providing safe care to patients in our complex healthcare system depends on reliable data and clearly communicated information. However, knowledge management is a complicated field in its own right. Patient Safety: Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer is an ambitious, important book that examines the complex intersection between patient safety and evidence, information and knowledge transfer (EI&K). Editor Lorri Zipperer has expertise in both patient safety and EI&K and it shows in this impressive work. Not only has she recognized the need for a thoughtful, clear-eyed exploration of EI&K's promise for moving health care closer to a culture of safety, but also has taken on the challenge of making sense of the intersection between two distinct, complicated fields. She has assembled an impressive list of contributors who provide needed background before examining potential EI&K failures and the improvement processes to address them. The authors also describe synergies between these two complex fields, and suggest future research directions.'
- Joanne Turnbull, PhD, Executive Director Emerita, National Patient Safety Foundation

'The published literature on patient safety principles is largely anecdotal and the evidence based knowledge in the field remains scarce. Lorri Zipperer, the editor of this new and groundbreaking book, has to be commended for her effort in providing a fresh perspective on the impact of EI&K (Evidence, Information, Knowledge) principles for patient safety. The new book appears to successfully complete the daunting task of extrapolating the "dry" theoretical aspects of interest to librarians and patient safety professionals, to relevant clinical processes and applications of interest to practicing physicians (including surgeons). ...Beyond a doubt, this meritorious work was desperately needed, and will hopefully allow to foster the buy-in and support by healthcare providers in sust

Book Information
ISBN 9781138249165
Author Lorri Zipperer
Format Paperback
Page Count 398
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g