Risk, Safety and Clinical Practice
Health care through the lens of risk
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 November 2009
- ISBN 9780198569008
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages270 pages
- Size 233x156x15 mm
- Weight 429 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 black and white line drawing 0
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Short description:
This introductory text focuses on the underlying generic issues of risk management in health care. It allows the reader to analyse risk management issues, and to critically evaluate the claims made about existing and new technologies, in an informed way.
MoreLong description:
Risk thinking is transforming the understanding, organisation and management of health 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 up novel 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 pushing health care systems towards the surveillance of populations and the targeting of groups identified as being at higher risk. All too often, service users, health professionals, policy makers and researchers draw upon a risk management framework without reflecting critically on its assumptions or limitations.
This introductory text focuses on the underlying generic issues of risk management in a health care. Aimed at health professionals, managers, educators and policy makers who are concerned with risk management, it allows the reader to analyse risk management issues, and to critically evaluate the claims made about existing 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.
All the chapters are well written and will assist health professionals, academics and students at undergraduate and post-graduate level who grapple with challenges created by the dominance of risk assessment. Its grounding in the real world of health care helps clarify and make useful a number of complex theoretical concepts, particularly within the areas of risk categorization and conceptualization. This book succeeds in doing what it sets out to do.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The concept of risk
The social construction of health risks
Values and health risks
Risk and probabilistic reasoning
Time and health risks
Information about health risks
Health risks and the media
The regulation of health risks
Health risk and the patient safety agendaA case study of swine flu and concluding remarks
