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Closing Death's Door brings the psychology of decision making together with the law to explore ways to improve patient safety and reduce iatrogenic injury - the cause of as many as 400,000 US deaths every year - in a world where neither the healthcare industry itself nor the legal system has made a serious dent in the problem.
Table des matières
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Nightmare in Dallas-The Ebola Case: A Medical Error Paradigm
- Chapter 3. IOM and Public Disclosure of the Error Problem - To Err is Human
- Chapter 4. Injury Incidence: The Scope of the Problem
- Chapter 5. The Medical Malpractice Litigation System
- Chapter 6. Meditations on Medical Torts
- Chapter 7. Defensive Medicine: A Response to the Legal Response?
- Chapter 8. Error Reporting: A Flawed Panacea
- Chapter 9. Legal Innovations to Promote Patient Safety-An Introduction
- Chapter 10. Incentives-Good, Bad, and Perverse
- Chapter 11. Systems, Errors, and Responsibility-It's the System's Fault!
- Chapter 12. Regulation and Engaged Surveillance
- Chapter 13. Information Technology
- Epilogue
A propos de l'auteur
Michael Saks is a Regents' Professor in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. He is also a faculty fellow with the Center for Law, Science and Innovation at ASU. His research interests focus on empirical studies of law and the legal system, especially decision-making in the legal process, evidence law, the law's use of science, the behavior of the litigation system, and legal policy affecting medical patient safety.
Stephan Landsman is Emeritus Professor of Law and Organizer and Director of the Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy at the DePaul University College of Law. He is a nationally renowned expert on the civil jury system, and through his ongoing study of the American jury has become a leader in applying social science methods to legal problems.
Résumé
Closing Death's Door brings the psychology of decision making together with the law to explore ways to improve patient safety and reduce iatrogenic injury - the cause of as many as 400,000 US deaths every year - in a world where neither the healthcare industry itself nor the legal system has made a serious dent in the problem.
