Risk Management in Health Care Institutions: Limiting Liability and Enhancing Care (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781449645656)

This text serves as a primer for risk management professionals. It covers basic concepts of risk management, employment practices, and general risk management strategies. It also goes over specific risk areas including medical malpractice, strategies to reduce liability, managing positions and litigation alternatives. It includes an emphasis on outpatient medicine and the risks associated with electronic medical records. This new edition covers academic medical settings and the impact on healthcare delivery, ambulatory and outpatient surgery, and office based surgery (OBS). Each and every chapter will be updated, and more emphasis will be placed on electronic medical records including security and encryption issues. New chapters cover Risk Management for Infection Control Programs, Telemedicine, Risk Management in Ambulatory Care Settings, and Risk Management in Office-Based Surgery.

Author: Florence Kavaler, Raymond S. Alexander
ISBN-10: 1449645658
ISBN-13: 9781449645656
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2012
Pages: 534
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.00w x 1.20d