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How safe are hospitals? Why do some hospitals have higher rates of accident and errors involving patients? How can we accurately measure and assess staff attitudes towards safety? How can hospitals and other healthcare environments improve their safety culture and minimize harm to patients? These and other questions have been the focus of research within the area of Patient Safety Culture (PSC) in the last decade. More and more hospitals and healthcare managers are trying to understand the nature of the culture within their organisations and implement strategies for improving patient safety. The main purpose of this book is to provide researchers, healthcare managers and human factors practi...
This book discusses medicine from an ethical perspective, whereas books on medical ethics more commonly present ethics from a bio-medical standpoint. The book is divided into 23 chapters. The introductory chapters present some basic concepts of medical ethics, such as the relation between the legal system and ethics, ethical documents, ethical theories, and ethical analysis. The following chapters address issues of importance in all fields of medicine: respecting autonomy, communication, relations within a healthcare team, professional malpractice, limited resources, and the portrait of a physician. In turn, the third part of the book focuses on ethical aspects in a broad range of medical ac...
People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.
Die Vergütungsreform mit DRGs hat für die Krankenhausversorgung in Deutschland den Weg in eine größere Leistungs- und Kostentransparenz gewiesen. Als weiterer konsequenter Schritt steht für 2005 die Vorlage eines Qualitätsberichts für jedes Krankenhaus an. Krankenhäuser als sozial verantwortliche Unternehmen stehen in der Pflicht, die Qualität ihrer Leistungen der Öffentlichkeit darzulegen. Doch noch ist die externe Qualitätsberichterstattung für deutsche Krankenhäuser ein ziemlich unbestelltes Feld. Hohen Erwartungen von Patienten und Öffentlichkeit stehen Bedenken gegen Transparenz bei verschiedenen Leistungserbringern gegenüber. Die für 2005 gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Qua...
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