Vanderbilt Center for Clinical Improvement
Professional Reading
Patient Safety
| To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System by the Institute of Medicine, 2000 Landmark publication from the Institute of Medicine. This report lays out a comprehensive strategy by which government, health care providers, industry, and consumers can reduce preventable medical errors. Concluding that the know-how already exists to prevent many of these mistakes, the report sets as a minimum goal a 50 percent reduction in errors over the next five years. | |
 | Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century by Committee on Quality of Health Care in America and Institute of Medicine, 2001 |
Health Care Quality Improvement
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The Quality Advantage: A Strategic Guide for Health Care Leaders by Joanne E. Turnbull and Julianne M. Morath, 1998 | |
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To Do No Harm: Ensuring patient Safety in Health Care Organizations by Julianne M. Morath RN MS, Joanne E. Turnbull PHD, and Lucian L. Leape, 2004 |
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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, 2006 |
Human Factors
 | The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error by Sidney Dekker | |
| Human Error by James Reason, 1990
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 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins, 2001 | |
 | Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow, 1984 | |
.jpg) | The Psychology of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman, 1988. | |
 | Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents by James Reason, 1997 | |
 | Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care by John J. Nance, 2008 | |
 | Human Factors in Aviation, Earl Wiener & David Nagel (eds), 1988 |
