Still not safe : patient safety and the middle-managing of American medicine / Robert Wears and Kathleen Sutcliffe.
2019
R729.8
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Title
Still not safe : patient safety and the middle-managing of American medicine / Robert Wears and Kathleen Sutcliffe.
Author
Wears, Robert L., author.
ISBN
9780190271299 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
R729.8
Dewey Decimal Classification
610.289
Summary
Patient safety suddenly burst into public consciousness in the late 1990s and became a 'celebrated' cause in the 2000s. It has since gradually faltered, and little improvement has been noted over almost 20 years. Both the rise and fall of patient safety demand explanation. Medical harm had been known long before the 1990s, so why did it suddenly become popular? And why were safety efforts ineffective? The authors propose that this rise was due to a discursive shift that reframed 'medical harm' into 'medical error' in the setting of anxiety about industrialization and great change in healthcare.
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Patient safety suddenly burst into public consciousness in the late 1990s and became a 'celebrated' cause in the 2000s. It has since gradually faltered, and little improvement has been noted over almost 20 years. Both the rise and fall of patient safety demand explanation. Medical harm had been known long before the 1990s, so why did it suddenly become popular? And why were safety efforts ineffective? The authors propose that this rise was due to a discursive shift that reframed 'medical harm' into 'medical error' in the setting of anxiety about industrialization and great change in healthcare.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 9, 2019).
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Sutcliffe, Kathleen M., 1950- author.
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190271268
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