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Organizing patient safety : failsafe fantasies and pragmatic practices Kirstine Zinck Pedersen

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Health technology and societyPublication details: London : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, c2018.Description: xxiii, 279 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781137537850
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.289 PE OR
Online resources: Summary: This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the patient safety programme introduces new problems and safety threats in clinical practice by devaluing practical forms of reasoning and the trained safety dispositions of clinicians.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 610.289 PE OR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available April 2018 T0058563

This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the patient safety programme introduces new problems and safety threats in clinical practice by devaluing practical forms of reasoning and the trained safety dispositions of clinicians.

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