Safety and ethics in healthcare : a guide to getting it right / Bill Runciman, Alan Merry, Merrilyn Walton.
Material type: TextPublisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xxii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0754644359
- 9780754644354
- 0754644375
- 9780754644378
- 174.2 22
- R725 .R86 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. What is wrong with healthcare -- 1. Setting the stage : an overview of healthcare -- 2. Risk and the harm caused by healthcare -- 3. Healthcare : a dysfunctional system -- 4. Naming, blaming and shaming -- Pt. 2. Understanding the basics -- 5. Human error and complex systems -- 6. Knowing what to do -- 7. Ethics, professional behaviour and regulation -- Pt. 3. What to do when things go wrong -- 8. When things go wrong : looking after the people involved -- 9. When things go wrong : preventing a recurrence -- Pt. 4. Preventing things from going wrong -- 10. Getting the best out of people -- 11. Getting the best out of the system -- 12. Where to now? -- App. I. Preferred terms and-definitions for key safety and quality concepts -- App. II. Public expenditure on healthcare in selected countries -- App. III. Risk matrix -- App. IV. Evidence-based medicine : sources of information -- App. V. International code of medical ethics -- App. VI. Jonsen's ethics framework -- App. VII. Severity assessment code (SAC) -- App. VIII. The advanced incident management system (AIMS) -- App. IX. Systems methodology (SSM) -- App. X. Sources of information for patients.
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