(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Patient safety has been tackled in journal articles and conference proceedings, but there are very few books on the topic. And none consider how methods and techniques developed in the area of engineering can handle safety and human error-related problems, until now.

Written by B.S. Dhillon, an expert in engineering management, design, reliability, safety, and quality, Patient Safety: An Engineering Approach (CRC Press, 2011), brings together the pertinent information scattered throughout books and journals, eliminating the need to consult many different and diverse sources to find what you need. Dhillon draws on his real-world experience to demonstrate how to handle patient safety-related problems using engineering techniques and backs this up with references for further reading at the end of each chapter. He sets the stage with introductory chapters on mathematical, patient safety, and human factors concepts essential to understanding materials presented in subsequent chapters.

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