Partnering With Patients to Reduce Medical Errors

This book outlines the skills to guide and motivate patients and their family members to take active responsibility for their care through better communications with health care provider staff. The book contains "tools" for caregivers that encompass opportunities for learning new collaboration skills and "tools" for health care patients and their family members or partners to help them enter into empowering relationships with caregivers. The outcome yields a safer health care environment and a better experience that benefits both caregivers and patients.Partnering with Patients goes beyond patient satisfaction techniques and addresses how to form patient/family partnerships that involve them in the error prevention loop and in safety improvement activities. It addresses the ultimate goal of reducing litigation and improving patient compliance. These are techniques that should be taught to every medical student, nursing student, and pharmacy student in all of our schools of professional education across the nation.Spath, Patrice L. is the author of 'Partnering With Patients to Reduce Medical Errors ', published 2004 under ISBN 9781556483141 and ISBN 1556483147.