DNAP 640 : Quality Improvement & Patient Safety

This course is designed to provide opportunities to analyze, synthesize, and apply knowledge of quality improvement and patient safety in anesthesia practice.  This course builds on behavioral, social, and organizational sciences.  It will explore the theoretical basis of human error, introduces a systems approach to error investigation and analysis, and integrates concepts of teamwork, crisis response management and monitoring systems in anesthesia practice.  Further, this course will closely examine a wide range of scholarly publications targeting the broad domain of patient safety.