First, Do Less Harm by Ross Koppel

First, Do Less Harm by Ross Koppel

In First, Do Less Harm, twelve health care professionals and researchers plus two former patients look at patient safety from a variety of perspectives, finding many of the proposed solutions to be inadequate or impractical.

"First, Do Less Harm does an excellent job of detailing major system and cultural barriers confronting patient safetyIts authors discuss the important issues that we all face as frontline providers trying to deliver the best health care we can." -- John Chuo, MD, MS, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
"Despite a decade of effort to decrease medical mistakes, progress has been painfully slow and unintended consequences have been the rule, not the exception. Two of the most innovative, iconoclastic thinkers in healthcare—Ross Koppel and Suzanne Gordon—have produced a book that tells us why, and illuminates the way forward. Their book is dramatic, honest, infuriating, surprising, and ultimately hopeful. It is a welcome contribution to the safety field, and deserves to be widely read." -- Robert M. Wachter, MD, Professor and Associate Chairman, Dept. of Medicine, Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine, and Marc and Lynne Benioff Endowed Chair, University of California, San Francisco
"The question of why we are unable to make the delivery of medical care safer and better—when we know how to do it—is a critically important but often neglected piece of the conversation on health reform. Although one reason for this failure is no doubt due to economic incentives, another is related to the archaic culture of health care. The essays in this book describe a system that is piecemeal, uncoordinated, dysfunctional, and dangerous for patients—and that doesn't have to be that way." -- Mary Lehman MacDonald, Director, AFT Healthcare

Ross Koppel is on the faculty of the Sociology Department and School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, holds a faculty position at the RAND Corporation, and is the internal evaluator at Harvard Medical School as well as holding other professional affiliations. He is the author of several seminal publications on health IT in JAMA and other leading scientific journals. Suzanne Gordon is Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and was program leader of the Robert Wood Johnson–funded Nurse Manager in Action Program. She is the author of Life Support and Nursing against the Odds, coauthor of Safety in Numbers and From Silence to Voice, editor of When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough, and coeditor of The Complexities of Care, all from Cornell.

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ISBN 13	9780801450778
ISBN 10	0801450772
Title	First, Do Less Harm
Author	Ross Koppel
Series	The Culture And Politics Of Health Care Work
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2012-05-15
Number of pages	304
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.