These books were recommended by the participants of the workshop “Setting up a hospital-wide patient safety program” held on Thursday april 24th 2008, at the International Forum in Paris.
• To Err is Human (Kohn and Corrigan)
• Crossing the Quality Chasm
• Patient Safety (Carol Haraden, Alan Frankel)
• Good to Great (Jim Collins)
• Human Error (James Reason)
• 7 Habits of Highly effective People (Covey)
• Complications (Atul Gawande)
• Better (Atul Gawande)
• Patient Safety (Charles Vincent)
• Preventing Adverse Events
• Clinical Microsystem by Design (Batalden, Godrey, Nelson)
• The 5th Discipline (Peter Senge)
• Improvement Guide (Langley)
• How to get out of hospital alive
• Resilience Engineering
• Medication Error (Cohen)
• Escape Fire (Donald Berwick)
• Patient Safety International (PSI) website
• WHO Patient Safety World Alliance
• Hand Hygiene C.D.C,
• Any of Donald Kirkpatricks books on evaluating education
• Organisations with a memory (Liam Donaldson)
• Who Moved my Cheese (Johnson)
• Inside Madness (Malissa Sweet)