Risk Management in Health Care Institutions Limiting Liability and Enhancing Care

This text serves as a primer for risk management professionals. It covers basic concepts of risk management, employment practices, and general risk management strategies. It also goes over specific risk areas including medical malpractice, strategies to reduce liability, managing positions and litigation alternatives. It includes an emphasis on outpatient medicine and the risks associated with electronic medical records.This new edition covers academic medical settings and the impact on healthcare delivery, ambulatory and outpatient surgery, and office based surgery (OBS). Each chapter will be updated and more emphasis will be placed on electronic medical records including security and encryption issues.

PartI Risk Management Administrative Issues
Chapter1 Risk Management Dynamics
Chapter2 Regulatory Environment
Chapter3 Risk Management in Employment
Chapter4 Communication to Reduce Risk
Chapter5 Financing Risk
Chapter6 Ethical Issues for Risk Managers
Chapter7 Assuring Safety and Security in Health Care Institutions
PartII Managing Risks in Clinical Services
Chapter8 Patient Safety Tools: Integrating Quality and Managing Risk
Chapter9 Medical Malpractice
Chapter10 Strategies to Reduce Liability
Chapter11 High Risk Areas
Chapter12 Risk Management for Infection Control Programs
Chapter13 Risk Management in Psychiatry
Chapter14 Telemedicine
PartIII Managing Risks in Other Health Care Venues
Chapter15 Risk Management in Ambulatory Care Settings
Chapter16 Risk Management in Long Term Care Institutions and Services
Chapter17 Risk Management in Office-Based Surgery