Malpractice in surgery
Subtitle: safety culture and quality management in the hospital
By: Michael Imhof
Series: Patient safety -- v. 6; Patient safety -- v. 6.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9783110271324; 9783110271607
Subjects: Health Care Quality Assurance; Intraoperative Complications; Foreign Bodies; Malpractice; Adverse effects; Prevention & control; Medical Errors; Operative Surgical Procedures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Principles of medical malpractice; title: Errors, incidents, and complications in general surgery; title: Retained surgical foreign bodies; title: Quality management related to wrong-site surgery; title: Towards a preventive safety culture within the hospital; title: Ethical aspects of an open safety culture : towards a new physician-patient relationship in 21st century medicine.