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Safety and ethics in healthcare [electronic resource] : a guide to getting it right / Bill Runciman, Alan Merry, Merrilyn Walton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.Description: xxii, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 174.2 22
LOC classification:
  • R725 .R86 2007eb
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Contents:
Setting the stage : an overview of healthcare -- Risk and the harm caused by healthcare -- Healthcare : a dysfunctional system -- Naming, blaming and shaming -- Human error and complex systems -- Knowing what to do -- Ethics, professional behaviour and regulation -- When things go wrong : looking after the people involved -- When things go wrong : preventing a recurrence -- Getting the best out of people -- Getting the best out of the system -- Where to now?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the stage : an overview of healthcare -- Risk and the harm caused by healthcare -- Healthcare : a dysfunctional system -- Naming, blaming and shaming -- Human error and complex systems -- Knowing what to do -- Ethics, professional behaviour and regulation -- When things go wrong : looking after the people involved -- When things go wrong : preventing a recurrence -- Getting the best out of people -- Getting the best out of the system -- Where to now?

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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