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Risk Management in Medicine

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Editors:
  1. Walter Merkle

    1. Specialist in Urology, Riskmanager in Medicine, Specialist in Urology, Management Expert for Hospitals (VWA), German Diagnostic Clinic – Helios Clinic, Wiesbaden, Germany

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  • Explains how to avoid human failures within medicine

  • Describes all relevant risk management systems and tools

  • Discusses legal and economic aspects

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Why We Do Wrong Although We Want to Do Right

    • Walter Merkle
    Pages 1-12

  3. Current View of German Authorities (State Chamber of Physicians)

    • Roland H. Kaiser
    Pages 13-20

  4. Human Behavior in the Execution of Tasks: Influencing Factors of Decision-Making

    • Dirk-Matthias Rose
    Pages 21-31

  5. Successful Strategies to Detect and Avoid Failures

    • Eugen H. Bühle
    Pages 33-49

  6. From Theory to Practice: Risk Management in Hands-On Flight Operations

    • Dieter Hensel, Cord-H. Becker
    Pages 51-57

  7. How to Perform Risk Management

    • Walter Merkle
    Pages 59-68

  8. Hospital Risk Management and the U.S. Legal System: An Introduction to U.S. Medical Malpractice Tort Law

    • C. J. Stimson
    Pages 69-76

  9. Systemic Coaching of Staff as Risk Management Tool

    • Regine Töpfer
    Pages 77-84

  10. CIRS in a Hospital Group

    • Sigrid Blehle
    Pages 85-88

  11. OTAS

    • Walter Merkle
    Pages 89-92

  12. FMEA

    • Achim Göbel
    Pages 93-96

  13. Team-Time-Out: Before It’s Too Late

    • Thomas Schmitz-Rixen, Michael Keese
    Pages 97-102

  14. Peer Review Procedures in Medicine

    • Nina Walter
    Pages 103-108

  15. Crew Resource Management (CRM)

    • Cord-H. Becker, Walter Merkle
    Pages 109-112

  16. Medical Law Aspects: Germany

    • Stephan Krempel
    Pages 113-115

  17. Hospital Law in Germany and Europe

    • Christian Rybak, A. Moroder
    Pages 117-123

  18. Medical Risk Management in the United States

    • Roger Roman Dmochowski
    Pages 125-127

  19. Insurance Problems

    • R. A. Patrick Weidinger
    Pages 129-131

  20. Implementation of Risk Management in Hospitals

    • Patrik Herrscher, Andreas Goepfert
    Pages 133-140
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About this book

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 and explain the techniques required to reduce their frequency. The principles of risk management are clearly described and lessons to be drawn from risk management in other sectors, such as aviation, are identified. Detailed consideration is given to all relevant risk management systems and tools, including Crew Resource Management (CRM), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Critical Incident Reporting System (CIRS), Team Time Out (TTO) and Observational Teamwork Assessment for Surgery (OTAS). International legal experts discuss aspects of law relevant to risk management in medicine in the United States and Europe and careful attention is also paid to economic factors, bearing in mind that risk management saves not only lives but also huge amounts of money. This book will be of value to all individuals, organizations and authorities concerned with effective implementation of risk management in hospitals, including doctors, hospital administrators, insurance companies and government departments.

Reviews

“The purpose is to show how often mistakes are made in healthcare, as well as to provide ways to protect healthcare professionals from making these mistakes. … This book is written for … the mass of people throughout healthcare. … This book is intriguing with the many examples and comparisons of healthcare throughout the U.S. and Europe. The title is useful and I anticipate that it will be read by many.” (Jessica Ruth Ferraro, Doody’s Book Reviews, April, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Specialist in Urology, Riskmanager in Medicine, Specialist in Urology, Management Expert for Hospitals (VWA), German Diagnostic Clinic – Helios Clinic, Wiesbaden, Germany

    Walter Merkle

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Risk Management in Medicine

  • Editors: Walter Merkle

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47407-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-47406-8Published: 23 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56897-2Published: 30 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-47407-5Published: 14 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 159

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Administration, Practice and Hospital Management

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