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(More customer reviews)Risk, Safety and Clinical Practice aims to help the reader to develop their 'risk literacy' in relation to health and health care. It succeeds admirably, and will prove invaluable to members of the public, health professionals, teachers at all levels and researchers who want to think critically about health risks and their management. Readers will learn how to analyse the processes of classification, evaluation, probabilistic reasoning and time-framing which underlie all risk thinking. Real cases involving screening, care for people with long-term conditions and many other issues help to clarify and bring to life the points which are made. The book makes available a wide range of academic literature for readers to follow up. This text is highly commended as a guidebook to risk thinking in all fields of health care.
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Risk thinking is transforming the understanding, organization, and management of heatlth care systems, and its significance is likely to increase still further over the next two decades as technological advances, for example the new genetics and the discovery of new biomedical markers, open up novel possibilities for health risk management.Heightened societal risk consciousness, such as food panics and the debate over the MMR vaccine, co-exists, apparently paradoxically, with increased life expectancy in advanced industrial societies and increasing concern about the longer term future. At the same time, social trends are pushing health care systems towards the surveillance of populations and the targeting of groups identified as being at higher risk. All too often, services users, health professionals, policy makers, and researchers draw upon a risk management without reflecting critically on its assumptions or limitations.This introductory text focuses on the underlying generic issues of risk management in health care. Aimed at health professionals, managers, educators and policy makers who are concerned with risk management, it allows the readers to analyze risk management issues, and to critically evaluate the claims made about exisiting and new technologies, in an informed way. It covers all aspects of risk relevant to a clinical setting and is closely related to decision making in the clinic.
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