This book, the fourth edition in the Resilient Healthcare series, contains contributions from international experts in health care, organisational studies and patient safety, as well as resilience engineering. This new edition provides a practical guide for delivering resilient healthcare, particularly for clinicians on the frontline of care.

1: Coming of Age; 2: The Need of a Guide to Deliver Resilient Health Care; 3: Procuring Evidence for Resilient Health Care; 4: Resilience Engineering for quality improvement: Case study in a unit for the care of older people; 5: Using workarounds to examine characteristics of resilience in action; 6: Simulation as a tool to study systems and enhance resilience; 7: Exploring resilience strategies in anaesthetists' work: A case study using interviews and the Resilience Markers Framework (RMF); 8: Promoting resilience in the maternity services; 9: Team Resilience: Implementing resilient healthcare at Middlemore ICU; 10: Understanding normal work to improve quality of care and patient safety in a spine center; 11: Engineering resilience in an urban emergency department; 12: Patterns of adaptive behaviour and adjustments in performance in response to authoritative safety pressure regarding the handling of KCl concentrate solutions; 13: A case study of resilience in inpatient diabetes care; 14: Where process improvement meets resilience: a study of the preparation and administration of drugs in a surgical inpatient unit; 15: The Safety-II Case: Reconciling the gap between WAI and WAD through structured dialogue and reasoning about safety; 16: When Disaster Strikes: Sustained Resilience Performance in an Acute Clinical Setting; 17: Making it happen - from research to practice