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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

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:

Introduction

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 8, 2021).

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-066800-8

0-19-751997-0

0-19-066799-0