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• Title:Accountability : patient safety and policy reform / Virginia A. Sharpe, editor.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Sharpe, Virginia A. (Virginia Ashby), 1959-
  
• Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB100 .A226 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB100 .A226 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical errors--United States.
  Health care reform--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Medical Errors--ethics--United States.
  Health Care Reform--United States.
  Medical Errors--legislation & jurisprudence--United States.
  
• Description:xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Hastings Center studies in ethics.
  
• Summary:"Without devastating the very institutions that exist in all good conscience to bring us the best possible health care, Accountability calls for a balanced public policy that creates systems capable of openness that deliver just compensation and humane treatment to patients and families who have suffered from harmful medical error."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index.
  
• ISBN:158901023X (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction: Accountability and justice in patient safety reform / Virginia A. Sharpe
  Writing/righting wrong / Sandra M. Gilbert
  Life but no limb: the aftermath of medical error / Carol Levine
  In memory of my brother, Mike / Roxanne Goeltz
  Error disclosure for quality improvement: authenticating a team of patients and providers to promote patient safety / Bryan A. Liang
  Prevention of medical error: where professional and organizational ethics meet / Edmund D. Pellegrino
  Medical mistakes and institutional culture / Carol Bayley
  "Missing the mark": medical error, forgiveness, and justice / Nancy Berlinger
  Is there an obligation to disclose near-misses in medical care? / Albert W. Wu
  God, science, and history: the cultural origins of medical error / Kenneth De Ville
  Reputation, malpractice liability, and medical error / William M. Sage
  Ethical misfits: mediation and medical malpractice litigation / Edward A. Dauer
  On selling "no-fault" / David M. Studdert
  Medical errors: pinning the blame versus blaming the system / E. Haavi Morreim.