This book presents a clinically tested, patient safety model for healthcare system leaders, middle-managers, and administrators to build their patient safety program and to help sustain, renew, or obtain accreditation. The Myers' Patient Safety Model presents an organized approach to promoting patient safety and obtaining accreditation. The author provides detailed explanations of why medical errors still occur in accredited hospitals, and provides the much needed organization-wide steps to prevent these errors and enhance patient safety for improved outcomes. The book links all aspects of patient safety with accreditation standards at the national level, and also discusses efforts to globalize accreditation criteria and procedures. Key features: Makes recommendations for healthcare institutions and accrediting bodies; discusses how aggregate data inform patient safety documentation and accreditation through integrated perspectives; provides tools for use in ensuring patient safety and accreditation, including root cause analysis and failure mode and effect analysis; examines leadership qualities and methods for a just institutional culture & offers a global view of accreditation and patient safety. | Patient Safety and Hospital Accreditation by Sharon Ann Myers, Paperback | Indigo Chapters