Risk, Safety and Clinical Practice: Healthcare Through the Lens of Risk

by Andy Alaszewski, Bob Heyman, Monica Shaw, et al.

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198569009
• ISBN13: 9780198569008
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"