Introduction to patient safety -- The physician advisor's role in contemporary psychiatry -- Handoffs in psychiatry -- Suicide risk management and prevention -- Medication errors in psychiatry: an examination of error proneness of psychotropic medications -- Safety considerations for electroconvulsive therapy -- Psychiatric problems in patients in the general hospital -- Avoiding restraints and seclusion use -- Root-cause analysis -- Planning for preventing of elopements -- Miscellaneous problems in patient safety.