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Product Description This handbook includes guidance on improving quality and safety at a systems or institutional level, as well as sound practical advice for the individual clinician. Clinical Quality and Patient Safety is a compact presentation of best practices and useful checklists, surveillance and audit methodology, and credentialing and accreditation processes. It is an excellent primer on how to set up systems for monitoring quality and adopting evidence-based practices to deliver high quality and safe care. Review This handbook includes guidance on improving quality and safety at a systems or institutional level, as well as sound practice advice for the individual clinician. It is an excellent primer. --Assoc Prof Yeoh Khay Guan, Dean, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine About the Author The authors of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety hail from National University Hospital, Singapore. Assoc Prof Quek Swee Chye is Deputy Chairman of the Medical Board; and Head and Senior Consultant, Paediatric Cardiology. Assoc Prof Sophia Ang Bee Leng is Vice Chairman, Medical Board for Patient Safety and Quality, and a Senior Consultant in Anaesthesia. Dr Sandhya Mujumdar is Deputy Director of Medical Affairs (Clinical Governance). Dr Diana Santos is the Manager of Medical Affairs (Clinical Governance).