This book is the 3rd volume in the Resilient Health Care series. Resilient health care is a product of both the policy and managerial efforts to organize, fund and improve services, and the clinical care which is delivered directly to patients. This volume continues the lines of thought in the first two books. Where the first volume provided the rationale and basic concepts of RHC and the second teased out the everyday clinical activities which adjust and vary to create safe care, this book will look more closely at the connections between the sharp and blunt ends. Doing so will break new ground, since the systematic study in patient safety to date with few exceptions has been limited.
About the Author: Jeffrey Braithwaite, BA, MIR (Hons), MBA, DipLR, PhD, FAIM, FCHSM,
FFPHRCP (UK), FAcSS (UK), is foundation director, Australian Institute
of Health Innovation; director, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and
Implementation Science; and professor of health systems research, Faculty
of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia. His
research examines the changing nature of health systems, attracting funding
of more than AU$85 million ( 54 million, £42 million). He has contributed
over 600 total publications and presented at international and national
conferences on more than 800 occasions, including 80 keynote addresses.
His research appears in journals such as the British Medical Journal, The Lancet,
Social Science and Medicine, BMJ Quality and Safety and the International Journal
of Quality in Health Care. He has received numerous national and international
awards for his teaching and research. Further details are available at
his Wikipedia entry: http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Braithwaite. He
blogs at http: //www.jeffreybraithwaite.com/new-blog/.
Robert L. Wears, MD, PhD, MS, is an emergency physician, professor of
emergency medicine at the University of Florida and visiting professor in
the Clinical Safety Research Unit at Imperial College London. His further
training includes a master's degree in computer science, a 1-year research
sabbatical focused on psychology and human factors in safety at the Imperial
College, followed by a PhD in industrial safety from Mines ParisTech (Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris). He serves on the board of directors
of the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation, and multiple
editorial boards, including Annals of Emergency Medicine, Human Factors and
