Accountability: patient safety and policy reform
Éditeur :
Georgetown University Press
ISBN :
9781589010239
Date de publication :
7 sept. 2004
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
522 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
According to a Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error - a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, or breast cancer. This book examines how conventional structures of accountability in law and medical structure should be replaced by ethically informed institutional policies.