Runciman, Bill.

Safety and ethics in healthcare a guide to getting it right / [electronic resource] : Bill Runciman, Alan Merry, Merrilyn Walton. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007. - xxii, 334 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the stage : an overview of healthcare -- Risk and the harm caused by healthcare -- Healthcare : a dysfunctional system -- Naming, blaming and shaming -- Human error and complex systems -- Knowing what to do -- Ethics, professional behaviour and regulation -- When things go wrong : looking after the people involved -- When things go wrong : preventing a recurrence -- Getting the best out of people -- Getting the best out of the system -- Where to now?


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Medical ethics.
Clinical medicine--Decision making.
Medical errors.
Health services accessibility.


Electronic books.

R725 / .R86 2007

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