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This data sheet provides a product description and specifications for the Hoana LifeBed patient vigilance system, LifeBed coverlet, and LifeBed display.
Hoana introduced intelligent medical vigilance as a technology-based patient solution to improve patient safety in hospital medical-surgical wards. This brochure describes the concept of vigilance and how it provides continuous observation of vital signs and alerts caregivers when the nurse is not in the patient’s room.
Understanding Patient Safety
By Robert Wachter, M.D.
Understanding Patient Safety is the essential book for anyone seeking to learn the key clinical, organizational, and systems issues in patient safety. Written in a lively and accessible style by one of the world's leaders in the fields of patient safety and quality, Understanding Patient Safety is filled with valuable cases and analyses, as well as up-to-date tables, graphics, references and tools - all designed to introduce the patient safety field to medical, nursing, pharmacy, hospital administration and other trainees, and to be the go-to book for experienced clinicians and non-clinicians alike.
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Internal Bleeding
By Robert Wachter, M.D. and Kaveh Shojania, M.D.
Internal Bleeding exposes the dark secrets behind the glistening facade of modern medicine. Doctors Robert Wachter and Kaveh Shojania, professors at one of America's leading medical schools and two of the world's foremost authorities on medical mistakes, shatter the silence to tell the dramatic and compelling stories of real patients betrayed by a system they trusted to save them. Through these stories, the authors reveal the inner workings, gut-wrenching dilemmas, and heartbreaking tragedies of our overburdened, understaffed health care system. Internal Bleeding provides an insider's view of how professional caregivers think, feel, and operate-insights that every patient and family must know to avoid becoming just other "mistake."
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