What Is e Business or Patient Safety

What Is e-Business?: How the Internet Transforms Organizations

Author: Feng Li

Based on fifteen years’ experience teaching e-Business modules, Feng Li takes the reader through the vast range of topics and issues surrounding e-business. This much-needed new text gives business and technology students the integrated framework they need to interpret conflicting and rapidly changing business phenomena.

• A coherent introduction to e-business.
  
• Features case studies of the transformation of various industries, including banking, the music industry, e-tailing, the telecoms industry, and e-public services.
  
• Discusses emerging issues such as privacy, security, identity and presence in the cyber world, Internet marketing, legal, regulatory, social and political issues.
  
• Supported by online lecturer and student resources, available soon.

Books about marketing: Managerial Economics or Corporations and Other Business Enterprises

Patient Safety: Principles and Practice

Author: Susan V Whit

This book provides readers with both a foundation of theoretical knowledge regarding patient safety as well as evidence-based strategies for preventing errors in various clinical settings. The authors' goal is to help clinicians and administrators gain the skills and knowledge they need to develop safe patient practices in their organizations.
Key topics include:

• An overview of evidence-based best practices for patient safety
• Clear explanation of important patient safety policies and legislation
• Innovative uses of technology such as computerized provider order entry, barcoding medications, and computerized clinical decision support systems
• The importance of an informed patient in preventing medical errors
• How to communicate with the public and the patient about errors if they occur
• Special patient safety concerns for children, the elderly, and the mentally ill

Table of Contents:

1	Patient safety issues	3
2	National patient safety initiatives	47
3	Improving patient safety using quality tools and techniques	87
4	Evidence-based practice to promote patient safety	135
5	Putting patients in charge of their health care to promote patient safety	158
6	Impact of nurse staffing on patient safety	194
7	Improving the nursing work culture	232
8	Using technology to improve patient safety	256
9	The role of risk management in patient safety : the needs, benefits and reasons to disclose errors	299
10	Pediatric patient safety	343
11	Patient safety in acute and critical care	364
12	Patient safety in ambulatory care	387
13	Safety issues with the elderly and Chronically ill	421
14	Patient safety in behavioral health	458
15	Promoting the safety of research participants	511