Risk Management in Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Merkle, Walter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health administration.; Practice of medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Administration.; Practice and Hospital Management.

To err is human, yet nobody wants to accept this fact. This is especially true in medicine! This book focuses on how human failures can be avoided in the medical context. Experts from different disciplines discuss the underlying causes of such failures and explain the techniques required to reduce t...

Table of Contents:

• Why do we wrong, although we want to do right?- Current view of German Authorities
• Human behavior in process management
• Successful strategies to detect and avoid failures
• Risk management in aviation
• Risk management in medicine – principles
• Risk management in the US medicine
• Systemic coaching of staff as risk management tool
• CIRS (Critical Incident Reporting System)
• OTAS (Observational Teamwork Assessment for Surgery)
•  FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
• TTO (Team Time Out)
• Peer-Review.- CRM (Crew Ressource Management).- Law aspects-Germany
• Law aspects - Europe
• Law Aspects - USA
• Insurances problems
• Implementation of risk management in hospitals
• Economic aspects of risk management
• ISO in medical risk management.