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Safety and ethics in healthcare : a guide to getting it right / Bill Runciman, Alan Merry, Merrilyn Walton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Runciman, Bill.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics.
- Clinical medicine--Decision making.
- Clinical medicine.
- Medical errors.
- Health services accessibility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A single coherent source of information on the various interlinking domains of patient safety, litigation and ethical behaviour, based on accounts of real-life situations and intended for all healthcare students, specialists and administrators.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-60744-1
- 1-317-06000-8
- 1-317-06001-6
- 1-281-09886-8
- 9786611098865
- 0-7546-8600-0
- 9781315607443
- OCLC:
- 476277073
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