| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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Hastings Center studies in ethics |
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Hastings Center studies in ethics.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Accountability and justice in patient safety reform / Virginia A. Sharpe -- Writing/righting wrong / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Life but no limb: the aftermath of medical error / Carol Levine -- In memory of my brother, Mike / Roxanne Goeltz -- Error disclosure for quality improvement: authenticating a team of patients and providers to promote patient safety / Bryan A. Liang -- Prevention of medical error: where professional and organizational ethics meet / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Medical mistakes and institutional culture / Carol Bayley -- "Missing the mark": medical error, forgiveness, and justice / Nancy Berlinger -- Is there an obligation to disclose near-misses in medical care? / Albert W. Wu -- God, science, and history: the cultural origins of medical error / Kenneth De Ville -- Reputation, malpractice liability, and medical error / William M. Sage -- Ethical misfits: mediation and medical malpractice litigation / Edward A. Dauer -- On selling "no-fault" / David M. Studdert -- Medical errors: pinning the blame versus blaming the system / E. Haavi Morreim |
| Summary |
"Without devastating the very institutions that exist in all good conscience to bring us the best possible health care, Accountability calls for a balanced public policy that creates systems capable of openness that deliver just compensation and humane treatment to patients and families who have suffered from harmful medical error."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical errors -- United States
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Health care reform -- United States
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Health care reform.
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Medical Errors -- ethics
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Health Care Reform
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Medical Errors -- legislation & jurisprudence
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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MEDICAL -- Ethics.
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Health care reform
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Medical errors
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Réforme domaine santé -- États Unis d'Amérique.
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Medizinschaden
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Ethik
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Gesundheitswesen
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Erreurs médicales -- États-Unis.
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sharpe, Virginia A. (Virginia Ashby), 1959-
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| LC no. |
2004005622 |
| ISBN |
9781589012301 |
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1589012305 |
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9781589010239 |
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158901023X |
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