Still not safe : patient safety and the middle-managing of American medicine /
Patient safety suddenly burst into public consciousness in the late 1990s and became a 'celebrated' cause in the 2000s. It has since gradually faltered, and little improvement has been noted over almost 20 years. Both the rise and fall of patient safety demand explanation. Medical harm had...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Patient safety suddenly burst into public consciousness in the late 1990s and became a 'celebrated' cause in the 2000s. It has since gradually faltered, and little improvement has been noted over almost 20 years. Both the rise and fall of patient safety demand explanation. Medical harm had been known long before the 1990s, so why did it suddenly become popular? And why were safety efforts ineffective? The authors propose that this rise was due to a discursive shift that reframed 'medical harm' into 'medical error' in the setting of anxiety about industrialization and great change in healthcare. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190271299 0190271299 9780190271282 0190271280 |