Practicing patient safety in psychiatry / edited by Geetha Jayaram, MD Associate Professor Departments of School of Health Policy and Management, Psychiatry Johns Hopkins School of Medicine ; contributors, O. Joseph Bienvenu, MD, PhD [and seven others].
Publication Info.
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Contents
Introduction to patient safety -- The physician advisor's role in contemporary psychiatry -- Handoffs in psychiatry -- Suicide risk management and prevention -- Medication errors in psychiatry: an examination of error proneness of psychotropic medications -- Safety considerations for electroconvulsive therapy -- Psychiatric problems in patients in the general hospital -- Avoiding restraints and seclusion use -- Root-cause analysis -- Planning for preventing of elopements -- Miscellaneous problems in patient safety.
