Clinical Risk Management

The aim of this book is to reduce the risks of medical treatment and enhance the safety of patients in all areas of healthcare. The first section discusses human error, the incidence of harm to patients, and the development or risk management. Chapters in the second section discuss the reduction of risk in clinical practice in key medical specialties. The third section discusses features of the healthcare systems that are essential to safe practice, such as communication of risk to patients, the design of equipment, supervision and training, and effective teamwork. The fourth section describes how to put risk management into practice, including the effective and sensitive handling of complaints and claims, the care of injured patients and the staff involved, and the reporting, investigation and analysis of serious incidents.

ISBN 0727913921   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780727913920 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 994 Publisher BMJ Publishing Group   Published in London Imprint BMJ Books   Previous ISBN 9780727909473 Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 15 Jan 2001   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 610.68   Spine width (mm) 32 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate Pages 588

		Contributors
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction by Charles Vincent		1
Pt. I		Principles of Risk Management
1		Understanding adverse events: the human factor by James T. Reason		9
2		Errors and adverse events in medicine: an overview by Eric J. Thomas and Troyen A. Brennan		31
3		The development of clinical risk management by Kieran Walshe		45
4		Clinical governance: the context of risk management by Jonathan Secker-Walker and Liam Donaldson		61
Pt. II		Reducing Risk in Clinical Practice
5		Reducing risk in obstetrics by James Drife		77
6		Reducing risk in paediatrics and neonatal intensive care by Peter Dear		95
7		Clinical risk management in anaesthesia by Jan Davies and Alan Aitkenhead		111
8		Risk management in surgery by John Williams		137
9		Risk management in accident and emergency medicine by Peter Driscoll and Martin Thomas and Robin Touquet		151
10		Reducing risks in the practice of hospital general medicine by Graham Neale		175
11		Risk management in clinical oncology by Gareth Rees		197
12		Risk management in psychiatry by Maurice Lipsedge		219
13		Risk management in general practice by Stephen Rogers		241
Pt. III		The Conditions of Safe Practice
14		Communicating risk to patients and families by James W. Pichert and Gerald B. Hickson		263
15		Guidelines and pathways by Robbie Foy and Jeremy Grimshaw and Martin Eccles		283
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		Index		555

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