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Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine

The term patient safety rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community -- in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities -- sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US attributed to medical errors each year. Butwhat was causing these medical errors? And what made these accidents to rise to epidemic levels, seemingly overnight?Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient-safety movement -- and how an epidemic of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization. Physician Robert Wears and organizational theorist Kathleen Sutcliffe trace the origins of patient safety to theemergence of market trends that challenged the place of doctors in the larger medical ecosystem: the rise in medical litigation and physicians' aversion to risk; institutional changes in the organization and control of healthcare; and a bureaucratic movement to rationalize medical practice --

Product details: Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine

Author : Robert Wears

Pages : 304 pages

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN-10 : 0190271264

ISBN-13 : 9780190271268

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