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Accountability : patient safety and policy reform / Virginia A. Sharpe, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Hastings Center studies in ethicsPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781589012301
  • 1589012305
  • 9781589010239
  • 158901023X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Accountability.DDC classification:
  • 362.1/0425 22
LOC classification:
  • R729.8 .A25 2004eb
NLM classification:
  • 2004 M-953
  • WB 100
Online resources:
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.
Review: "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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index.

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.

"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

Print version record.

English.

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