Safety and ethics in healthcare a guide to getting it right /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Runciman, Bill
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Merry, Alan, Walton, Merrilyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
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Table of 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?