Risk, safety, and clinical practice : healthcare through the lens of risk

Risk, safety, and clinical practice : healthcare through the lens of risk / Bob Heyman [and others].

This introductory text focuses on the underlying generic issues of risk management in health care. It allows the reader to analyse risk management issues and to critically evaluate the claims made about existing and new technologies, in an informed way.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Heyman, Bob
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Medical care > Safety measures.
Health facilities > Risk management.
Hospitals > Risk management.
Organization.
Risk management.
Health facilities.
Methodology.
Health services administration.
Medical care.
Economics.
Accidents > Prevention.
Accidents.
Public health.
risk management.
health facilities.
methodology.
economics.
accidents.
public health.
Risk management
Public health
Organization
Methodology
Medical care
Health services administration
Health facilities
Economics
Accidents > Prevention
Accidents
Health facilities > Risk management
Hospitals > Risk management
Medical care > Safety measures
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Concept of risk
  • Social construction of health risks
  • Values and health risks
  • Health risks and probabilistic reasoning
  • Time and health risks
  • Information about health risks
  • Health risks and the media
  • Regulation of health risks
  • Health risk and the patient safety agenda
  • Case study of swine flu and concluding remarks.

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