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Risk, Safety and Clinical Practice

By Bob Heyman

Risk, Safety and Clinical Practice

By Bob Heyman

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Risk thinking is transforming the understanding, organization, and management of heatlth care systems, and its significance is likely to increase still further over the next two decades as technological advances, for example the new genetics and the discovery of new biomedical markers, open upnovel possibilities for health risk management. Heightened societal risk consciousness, such as food panics and the debate over the MMR vaccine, co-exists, apparently paradoxically, with increased life expectancy in advanced industrial societies and increasing concern about the longer term future. At the same time, social trends are pushinghealth care systems towards the surveillance of populations and the targeting of groups identified as being at higher risk. All too often, services users, health professionals, policy makers, and researchers draw upon a risk management without reflecting critically on its assumptions or limitations. This introductory text focuses on the underlying generic issues of risk management in health care. Aimed at health professionals, managers, educators and policy makers who are concerned with risk management, it allows the readers to analyze risk management issues, and to critically evaluate theclaims made about exisiting and new technologies, in an informed way. It covers all aspects of risk relevant to a clinical setting and is closely related to decision making in the clinic.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
268
Release Date:
2010-02-01
Publication Date:
2010-02-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198569009
ISBN13:
9780198569008
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
412 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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