Publisher's Synopsis
Clinical Risk Management (Volume 2 of the Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations, Fifth Edition) presents the most authoritative guidance for today’s health care risk managers.
This is the most current edition of the book that has become a standard in the field. The three–volume set covers the enterprise–wide continuum of care and associated risk and has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the current changes in the health care environment. The Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations offers current information, regulatory and legal updates, and assessment tools that will prove invaluable to both new and seasoned risk managers.
The second volume focuses on clinical risk management and provides information on:
- Patient Safety
- Risk Management’s Role in Performance Improvement
- Clinical Crisis Management
- Informed Consent
- Clinical Research
- Medication Safety
- The Risk Manager and Biomedical Technology
- Primary and Ambulatory Care
- Pre–Hospital Emergency Medical Services
- Emergency Department
- Behavioral Health
- Critical Care
- Perinatal Risk Management
- Pediatrics
- Operating Room
- Laboratory
- Radiology
- Home Care Services
- Post Acute and Long Term Care
