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    Informed consent and clinician accountability : the ethics of report cards on surgeon performance / edited by Steve Clarke, Justin Oakley.

    • Title:Informed consent and clinician accountability : the ethics of report cards on surgeon performance / edited by Steve Clarke, Justin Oakley.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Clarke, Steve, 1964-
      Oakley, Justin, 1960-
    • Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
    • Holdings

       
    • Medical Subjects:Informed Consent--legislation & jurisprudence.
      Surgery--standards.
      Employee Performance Appraisal--ethics.
      Clinical Competence.
      Ethics, Professional.
      Quality Assurance, Health Care--methods.
    • Description:xii, 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780521865074 (hbk.)
      0521865077 (hbk.)
      9780521687782 (pbk.)
      0521687780 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Introduction : accountability, informed consent and clinician performance information / Justin Oakley and Steve Clarke
      Pt. I. Accountability
      1. Clinician report cards and the limits of evidence-based patient choice / Michael Parker
      2. Report cards for institutions, not individuals / Neil Levy
      3. Safety, accountability, and 'choice' after the Bristol Inquiry / Torn Sorell
      4. Public reports : putting patients in the picture requires a new relationship between doctors and patients / Merrilyn Walton
      5. Adverse event disclosure : benefits and drawbacks for patients and clinicians / Paul Barach and Michael D. Cantor
      6. Report cards and performance monitoring / Stephen Bolsin and Liadain Freestone
      Pt. II. Informed consent
      7. Informed consent and surgeons' performance / Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley
      8. value and practical limits of informed consent / Merle Spriggs
      9. Against the informed consent argument for surgeon report cards / David Neil
      10. Trust and the limits of knowledge / David Macintosh
      11. Surgeons' report cards, heuristics, biases and informed consent / Steve Clarke
      12. Report cards, informed consent and market forces / Adrian J. Walsh
      Pt. III. Reporting performance information
      13. Is the reporting of an individual surgeon's clinical performance doing more harm than good for patient care? / Silvana F. Marasco and Joseph E. Ibrahim
      14. Examining the link between publicly reporting healthcare quality and quality improvement / Rachel M. Werner and David A. Asch
      15. Hospital and clinician performance data : what it can and cannot tell us / Paul Aylin
      16. ethical analysis of the defensive surgery objection to individual surgeon report cards / Justin Oakley
      17. Surgeon report cards and the concept of defensive medicine / Yujin Nagasawa
      18. Training, innovation and surgeons' report cards / Tony Eyers
      19. Doctors' report cards : a legal perspective / Ian Freckelton.
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