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Closing death's door : legal innovations to end the epidemic of healthcare harm / Michael J. Saks and Stephan Landsman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saks, Michael J., author.
- Landsman, Stephan, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Law and legislation--United States.
- Medical care.
- Medical personnel--Malpractice--United States.
- Medical personnel.
- Medical errors--United States--Prevention.
- Medical errors.
- Medical Errors--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Malpractice--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Liability, Legal.
- Patient Safety.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medical Errors--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Malpractice--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Liability, Legal.
- Patient Safety.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Legal innovations to end the epidemic of healthcare harm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'Closing Death's Door' brings the psychology of decision making together with the law to explore ways to improve patient safety and reduce iatrogenic injury - the cause of as many as 400,000 US deaths every year - in a world where neither the healthcare industry itself nor the legal system has made a serious dent in the problem.
- Contents:
- The problem of iatrogenic injury
- Nightmare in Dallas - the Ebola case : a medical error paradigm
- IOM and public disclosure of the error problem - to err is human
- Injury incidence : the scope of the problem
- The medical malpractice litigation system
- Meditations on medical torts
- Defensive medicine : a response to the legal response?
- Error reporting : a flawed panacea
- Legal innovations to promote patient safety : an introduction
- Incentives - good, bad, and perverse
- Systems, errors, and responsibility - it's the system's fault!
- Regulation and engaged surveillance
- Information technology
- Epilogue : the path forward.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 8, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-066800-8
- 0-19-751997-0
- 0-19-066799-0
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