Merry and Mccall Smith's errors, medicine and the law:

There is an understandable tendency or desire to attribute blame when patients are harmed by their own healthcare. However, many cases of iatrogenic harm involve little or no moral culpability. Even when blame is justified, an undue focus on one individual often deflects attention from other importa...

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Hauptverfasser: Merry, Alan (VerfasserIn), Brookbanks, Warren (VerfasserIn), McCall Smith, Alexander 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2017
Ausgabe:Second edition
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge bioethics and law
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Zusammenfassung:There is an understandable tendency or desire to attribute blame when patients are harmed by their own healthcare. However, many cases of iatrogenic harm involve little or no moral culpability. Even when blame is justified, an undue focus on one individual often deflects attention from other important factors within the inherent complexity of modern healthcare. This revised second edition advocates a rethinking of accountability in healthcare based on science, the principles of a just culture, and novel therapeutic legal processes. Updated to include many recent relevant events, including the Keystone Project in the USA and the Mid Staffordshire scandal in the UK, this book considers how the concepts of a just culture have been successfully implemented so far, and makes recommendations for best practice. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with patient safety, medical law and the regulation of healthcare.
Beschreibung:First edition published as Errors, medicine, and the law in 2001
Beschreibung:ix, 412 Seiten
ISBN:9781316632253
9781107180499