Engaging Patients as Safety Partners: A Guide for Reducing Errors and Improving Satisfaction, edited by Patrice L. Spath, aids health care professionals in understanding how patients and families can partner with practitioners to reduce medical errors and how practitioners can mitigate the effects of mistakes when they do occur. This book also provides valuable advice on how to surmount legal concerns associated with patient/practitioner collaboration. Engaging Patients as Safety Partners builds on and updates an earlier book edited by Patrice Spath, Partnering with Patients to Reduce Medical Errors. This new book provides proven solid ground for health care organizations following the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal requiring organizations to encourage patients’ active involvement in their own care as a patient safety strategy. The book builds upon research that indicates that there are fewer adverse events and harmful errors if caregivers create a supportive and transparent environment that encourages patient involvement. Foreword by Robert M. Wachter, M.D.

The book was published in May 2008 by AHA Health Forum. To order visit the Health Forum online store or call (800) 242-2626. ISBN 978-1-55648-353-0

Leading Your Healthcare Organization to Excellence can help senior leaders in health care organizations focus their efforts to achieve real improvements. This book uses the well-known Baldrige Criteria as a road map for increasing health care quality in an organization. Rather than an ill-defined management fad, the Baldrige Criteria provide an efficient outline for quality improvement that has delivered proven results across many industries, including health care. Organizations can use the book's many helpful tools, including key points, self-assessments, and reflections, to apply performance excellence concepts to their specific needs. Positive changes in the attitudes, services, processes, measurement, planning, leadership, and patient satisfaction organization can all be inspired by the Baldrige Criteria.

In 2006 Patrice received the James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award for this book. The James A. Hamilton Award is given annually to the author of a management or healthcare book judged outstanding by the American College of Healthcare Executive’s Book of the Year Committee.

The book was published in December 2004 by Health Administration Press, a subsidiary of the American College of Health Care Executives. To order visit the ACHE online publications store or call (301) 362-6905. ISBN 1-56793-233-9

Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety gives health care professionals the strategic skills necessary for reducing errors in health care processes. The editor, Patrice L. Spath, brought together patient safety experts from throughout the world, including Dr. Lucian Leape of Harvard School of Public Health. In the book these specialists share their wealth of experience and knowledge of error investigation and prevention strategies. 

 

The book was published in 2000 by Jossey-Bass Publishers and AHA Press. Since publication it has won wide acclaim and was a Doody`s 250 Best Books of the Year Selection. To order visit the Jossey-Bass web site or call (800) 956-7739. ISBN: 0-787-95596-5

staff development

In Guide to Effective Staff Development in Health Care Organizations a stellar panel of health care experts offer administrators and managers a variety of techniques for providing cost-efficient staff orientation, training, and continuing education. This book serves as a contemporary field guide for those who must make informed decisions about which staff training and education strategies are best for their organization. You`ll learn how to transform into a learning environment that supports your strategic performance goals.

 

Edited by Patrice L. Spath and published in Jan. 2002 by Jossey-Bass and AHA Press. To order visit the Jossey-Bass web site or call (800) 956-7739. ISBN: 0-787-95874-3