Clinical Risk Management 1st Edn - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0727909479 ISBN 13: 9780727909473

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1995

Synopsis

Risk management is now a major issue in health care, aimed at reducing the likelihood of harming patients during treatment, minimising trauma to those who are affected, and controlling the possibility of subsequent litigation.
Written by leading specialists in clinical risk management from the United Kingdom and the United States, and with chapters by clinicians in the key specialties, this comprehensive text takes a positive approach. It addresses means of improving the quality of care, and places special emphasis on occasions when patients may be harmed or disturbed by treatment.
In three sections it provides a full guide to the principles of risk management, reducing the risk in clinical practice, and implementing risk management. The last section includes chapters on investigation of complaints; caring for patients; supporting staff; and claims management.
This timely book will provide all the information needed by risk managers, hospital managers, doctors, and nurses to recognise potential clinical risks and deal in the optimum way with any claims that may arise. It will also be of interest to lawyers and academics concerned with the impact of litigation on clinical practice.

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Synopsis

Risk management is now a major issue in health care, aimed at reducing the likelihood of harming patients during treatment, minimizing trauma to those who are affected, and controlling the possibility of subsequent litigation. This work addresses the means of improving the quality of care, and places special emphasis on occasions when patients may be harmed or disturbed by treatment. In three sections it provides a guide to: the principles of risk management; reducing the risk in clinical practice; and implementing risk management. The last section includes chapters on investigation of complaints; caring for patients; and supporting staff and claims management. The book should provide all the information needed by risk managers, hospital managers, doctors and nurses to recognize potential clinical risks and deal in the optimum way with any claims that may arise. It should also be of interest to lawyers and academics concerned with the impact of litigation on clinical practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0727909479
• ISBN 13: 9780727909473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 588
• Editor: Vincent Charles