{"product_id":"patient-safety-ethics-john-d-banja-9781421429083","title":"Patient Safety Ethics: How Vigilance, Mindfulness, Compliance, and Humility Can Make Healthcare Safer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeveloping best practices and ethical systems to protect and enhance patient safety.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman errors occur all too frequently in medical practice settings. One sobering recent report claimed that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Hoping to reverse this disturbing trend but wondering why it is that things usually go well despite errors, John D. Banja's \u003ci\u003ePatient Safety Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e lays out a model that advocates vigilance, mindfulness, compliance, and humility as core ethical principles of patient safety. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that the safe provision of healthcare is one of the most fundamental moral obligations of clinicians, Banja surveys the research literature on harm-causing medical errors to explore the ethical foundations of patient safety and to reduce the severity and frequency of medical error. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on quality improvement, risk management, and medical decision making, Banja also relies on a novel source of information to illustrate patient safety ethics: medical malpractice suits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding professional perspective with insights from prominent patient safety experts, \u003ci\u003ePatient Safety Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e identifies hazard pitfalls and suggests concrete ways for clinicians and regulators to improve patient safety through an ethically cultivated program of \"hazard awareness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John D. Banja\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 142142908X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421429083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"John D. Banja","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449576370431,"sku":"9781421429083","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b351474-91b1-4d82-918a-2d447e14ca85.jpg?v=1777264001","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/patient-safety-ethics-john-d-banja-9781421429083","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}