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Informationen zum Autor Alan Merry practices in anaesthesia and chronic pain management at Auckland City Hospital, and is Head of the School of Medicine at the University of Auckland, Chair of the Board of the New Zealand Health Quality and Safety Commission and a board member of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists and the Lifebox Foundation. His research and publications reflect interests in medical law, human factors, patient safety and global health. He is an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Warren Brookbanks is a legal academic, and former practising lawyer and probation officer, and is currently Professor of Law and Director for the Centre for Non-Adversarial Justice at the Auckland University of Technology Law School. He has written extensively in the areas of criminal law, psychiatry and the law, and therapeutic jurisprudence, and was previously President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL). His textbooks on criminal law and mental health law have been past winners of the J. F. Northey Memorial Book Prize. Klappentext Errors and violations harm many patients: this book explores how to improve both accountability and patient safety in healthcare. Zusammenfassung This second edition provides a more informed alternative to the blame culture which has increasingly come to dominate our response to accidents! whether in the medical field or elsewhere. It is aimed at all who have a deep interest in patient safety! medical law and the regulation of healthcare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Acknowledgement; Introduction; 1. Accidents; 2. The human factor; 3. Errors; 4. Violations; 5. Negligence, recklessness and blame; 6. The standard of care; 7. Assessing the standard - the role of the expert witness; 8. Beyond blame: responding to the needs of the injured; 9. The place of the criminal law in healthcare; 10. Rethinking accountability in healthcare; Conclusion; Index....
