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Inpatient Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

  • 1st Edition, Volume 109-5 - August 5, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Moises Auron, Michelle Brooks, Suchita Shah Sata
  • Language: English

In this issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Moises Auron, Michelle Brooks, and Suchita Shah Sata bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Inpati… Read more

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In this issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Moises Auron, Michelle Brooks, and Suchita Shah Sata bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Inpatient Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Top experts address fundamental and current topics in quality of healthcare and patient safety in hospitalized patients, including discussions of the quality improvement process, high reliability organization, diagnostic errors, medication safety, and handoffs and care transitions, as well as clinical topics such as prevention of healthcare-acquired infections, pneumonia, heart failure, and more.

Key features

  • Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including accreditation and health policy; artificial intelligence in QPS; diagnostic errors and cognitive reasoning; human factors engineering and behavior change management; and more
  • Provides in-depth clinical reviews on inpatient quality improvement and patient safety, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
  • Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews

Readership

Internal Medicine

Table of contents

Quality Improvement Essentials and Teaching Quality Improvement
Storytelling: How to Make Data Meaningful?
High Reliability in Health Care
Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Errors
Interprofessional Collaboration: Creating Effective Teams within and across Organizations
Medication Safety in Acute Care Settings
Handoffs, Care Transitions, and Readmissions
Change Management and Human Factors
Costs, Value, and Variation
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection, Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection, and Clostridioides difficile Infection—An Overview
Accreditation and Health Policy and Their Impacts on Quality
Health Care Quality and Patient Safety in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Administrative Harm
Equity in Quality Improvement: A Comprehensive Approach

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 109-5
  • Published: August 5, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

MA

Moises Auron

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, CCLCM of CWRU, Medical Director of Blood Management, Department of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Main Campus  Mail Code M2, Cleveland, OH, USA

MB

Michelle Brooks

Affiliations and expertise
Deputy Associate Chief of Staff for Education, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USA

SS

Suchita Shah Sata

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA