Research Catalog

Title

Risk management in healthcare institutions : limiting liability and enhancing care / Florence Kavaler, Raymond S. Alexander.

Author

Kavaler, Florence.

Publication

Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2014], ©2014.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Alexander, Raymond S.

Description

xxv, 530 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Health facilities > Risk management > United States
• Health facilities > Risk management
• Health Facility Administration
• Risk Management > ethics
• Risk Management > methods
• United States

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Risk management in health care institutions. 2nd ed. c2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Risk management dynamics -- Regulatory environment -- Risk management in employment -- Communication to reduce risk -- Financing risk -- Ethical issues for risk managers -- Assuring safety and security in healthcare institutions -- Patient safety tools : integrating quality and managing risk -- Medical malpractice -- Strategies to reduce liability -- Risk management in selected high risk hospital departments -- Risk management for infection control program -- Risk management in psychiatry -- Telemedicine -- Risk management in ambulatory care settings -- Risk management in long term care institutions and services -- Risk management in office-based surgery.

ISBN

• 9781449645656 (pbk.)
• 1449645658 (pbk.)

LCCN

2012022168

OCLC

• ocn794922781
• 794922781
• SCSB-8858768

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries