Risk Control and Quality Management in Neurosurgery edited by H.-J. Steiger, E. Uhl.

Quality in an invasive discipline such as neurosurgery comprises evidence based medicine, cost effectiveness and also risk control. Risk control and quality management have become a science on their own, combining the expertise of many specialists such as psychologists, mathematicians and also econo...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Steiger, H.-J (Editor), Uhl, E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, 78
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Table of Contents:
  • A: Basics
  • Principles of Risk and Safety
  • Techniques for Hazard Analysis and their Use at CERN
  • Learning from Errors in Aviation
  • Safety of Novel Projects, the Battle Against Murphy’s Law
  • B: The Human Factor
  • The Psychology of Team Interaction
  • Crew Coordination in Aviation
  • C: Principles of Quality Management in Medicine
  • Principles of Quality Management in Medicine: The British Concept
  • Quality Assurance in Neurosurgery: United States Concepts
  • Principles and Problems of Assessing the Results of Medical Treatment
  • Impacts of Socio-Economic Restrictions on Quality in Neurosurgery and other Specialities
  • Quality, Risk and Health Care: Another View
  • D: Standards of Perioperative Care
  • Quality Management in Neuropathology
  • Quality Management in Laboratory Medicine
  • Patient Information in the Light of Quality Assurance
  • What Diagnostics are Necessary Before and after Surgery?
  • Standards of Neurosurgical Procedures
  • Standards of Neuroanesthesia
  • Towards European Standards in Neuroradiology
  • Quality Factors in Interventional Neuroradiology
  • Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
  • Quality Management in Neurosurgical Nursing
  • E: Learning from Errors in Neurosurgery
  • Keeping Track of Critical Incidents and Complications
  • Principles of the Morbidity and Mortality Conference
  • Mechanisms to Improve Treatment Standards in Neurosurgery, Cerebral Aneurysm Surgery as Example
  • Mechanisms to Improve Teamworking in Neurosurgery
  • A Complication Conference for Internal Quality Control at the Neurosurgical Department of the University of Heidelberg
  • F: Proficiency of Staff and Residents
  • Proficiency in Nuerosurgery
  • Competency Based Residency Training: The next Advance in Graduate Medical Education
  • The Semi-Annual Residency Rotation Summary: A Means to Assess the Quality of Neurosurgical Training
  • Continuing Education — the EANS Concepts
  • Continuing Education: The British Experience
  • Is There a Need for Periodical Recertification
  • G: Risk and Quality Management in Research
  • How to Control the Risk of Novel Clinical Procedures
  • Measuring the Importance of Scientific Results — in Neurosurgery
  • H: ISO 9000 Quality Concepts Applied to Neurosurgery
  • Quality Management in Hospitals — Quo Vadis?
  • How can the ISO 9000 Concept be Applied to Neurosurgery?
  • of ISO 9000 and other Quality Concepts Applied to Neurosurgery
  • I: Risk Control and Quality Management in the Next Century
  • Emerging Unwanted Side Effects of Quality Control, or the Value of the Immeasurable Qualities of Medical Care
  • Ethics and Quality of Neurosurgical Care
  • Research and Clinical Routine in the next Century, Segregation or Cooperative Networks?
  • Guidelines for Guidelines.