Risk Management in Medicine
To err is human, yet nobody wants to accept this fact. This is especially true in medicine! This book focuses on how human failures can be avoided in the medical context. Experts from different disciplines discuss the underlying causes of such failures an
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Risk Management in Medicine
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Risk Management in Medicine
Walter Merkle Editor
Risk Management in Medicine
Editor Walter Merkle, MD Riskmanager in Medicine Specialist in Urology Management Expert for Hospitals (VWA) German Diagnostic Clinic – Helios Clinic Wiesbaden Germany
ISBN 978-3-662-47406-8 ISBN 978-3-662-47407-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-47407-5
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Preface
Risk Management in Hospitals – New subject or just new wine in old bottles? Both are correct. Risk management as principle is a well-known tool, but currently not well used in hospitals. Industrial enterprises have been developing risk management tools for decades. Motorola was the first company to start with systemic analysis as to why some procedures went wrong. It was shown that not Motorola was dealing with a problematic business, but is working with people – meaning with its staff. Where people are working, mistakes and failures are common. Errare humanum est – hundreds of years ago ancient Rome already knew this. The systemic approach by Motorola and others showed that there is a baseline level of human-caused failures independent of the individual and independent of the business or procedure. At the end of the last century, the Harvard Medical Study demonstrated that in medicine there is also a baseline level of 3 % failures in all medical procedures – what a surprise!? Really? Meanwhile some efforts are taken analyzing the specific details in medicine with focus on hospitals. This book will refer the current status of the details which now firm under the title of Risk Management. Reducing risk in patient treatment is as ethically as economically justifiable. The cause is simple – repair
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