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• Title:Safety and ethics in healthcare : a guide to getting it right / Bill Runciman, Alan Merry, Merrilyn Walton.
  
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• Author/Creator:Runciman, Bill.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Merry, Alan.
  Walton, Merrilyn.
  
• Published/Created:Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB100 .R86 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  Clinical medicine--Decision making.
  Medical errors.
  Health services accessibility.
  
• Medical Subjects: Medical Errors.
  Quality of Health Care--ethics.
  Safety Management--ethics.
  
• Description:xxii, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Erratum slip inserted.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780754644354 (hardback : alk. paper)
  0754644359 (hardback : alk. paper)
  9780754644378 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0754644375 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. 1. What is wrong with healthcare
  1. Setting the stage : an overview of healthcare
  2. Risk and the harm caused by healthcare
  3. Healthcare : a dysfunctional system
  4. Naming, blaming and shaming
  Pt. 2. Understanding the basics
  5. Human error and complex systems
  6. Knowing what to do
  7. Ethics, professional behaviour and regulation
  Pt. 3. What to do when things go wrong
  8. When things go wrong : looking after the people involved
  9. When things go wrong : preventing a recurrence
  Pt. 4. Preventing things from going wrong
  10. Getting the best out of people
  11. Getting the best out of the system
  12. Where to now?
  App. I. Preferred terms and-definitions for key safety and quality concepts
  App. II. Public expenditure on healthcare in selected countries
  App. III. Risk matrix
  App. IV. Evidence-based medicine : sources of information
  App. V. International code of medical ethics
  App. VI. Jonsen's ethics framework
  App. VII. Severity assessment code (SAC)
  App. VIII. advanced incident management system (AIMS)
  App. IX. Systems methodology (SSM)
  App. X. Sources of information for patients.