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The Ethics of Hospital Trustees (Hardcover): Bruce Jennings, Bradford H. Gray, Virginia A. Sharpe, Alan R. Fleischman The Ethics of Hospital Trustees (Hardcover)
Bruce Jennings, Bradford H. Gray, Virginia A. Sharpe, Alan R. Fleischman; Contributions by Bruce Jennings, …
R1,872 Discovery Miles 18 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

All manner of medical practitioners have had their scruples dissected ad infinitum. In spite of the attention paid to medical ethics and bioethics, little has been paid to the ethical roles and responsibilities of those who are ultimately in charge of hospital governance: hospital trustees. Deriving from a Hastings Center research project involving meetings with a national task force of experts and extensive interviews with 98 nonprofit hospital trustees and CEOs over a two-year period, The Ethics of Hospital Trustees shows that the decisions made by these often overlooked members of the health community do raise important ethical issues, and that ethical dimensions of trustee service should be more explicitly recognized and discussed.Practical as well as theoretical, The Ethics of Hospital Trustees uncovers four basic principles: 1. Fidelity to mission; 2. Service to patients; 3. Service to the community; and 4. Institutional stewardship. In delineating the extremely important functions of hospital trustees, from patient safety to financial responsibility, the contributors outline not only how hospital trustees do perform -- they give a fresh understanding to how they should perform as well.

Accountability - Patient Safety and Policy Reform (Hardcover): Virginia A. Sharpe Accountability - Patient Safety and Policy Reform (Hardcover)
Virginia A. Sharpe
R1,867 Discovery Miles 18 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error--a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. That astounding number of fatalities does not include the number of those serious mistakes that are grievous and damaging but not fatal. Who can forget the tragic case of 17-year-old Jesica Santillan, who died after receiving a heart-lung transplant with an incompatible blood type? What can be done about this? What should be done? How can patients and their families regain a sense of trust in the hospitals and clinicians that care for them? Where do we even begin the discussion? Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform brings the issue to the table in response to the demand for patient safety and increased accountability regarding medical errors. In an interdisciplinary approach, Virginia Sharpe draws together the insights of patients and families who have suffered harm, institutional leaders galvanized to reform by tragic events in their own hospitals, philosophers, historians, and legal theorists. Many errors can be traced to flaws in complex systems of health care delivery, not flaws in individual performance. How then should we structure responsibility for medical mistakes so that justice for the injured can be achieved alongside the collection of information that can improve systems and prevent future error? Bringing together authoritative voices of family members, health care providers, and scholars--from such disciplines as medical history, economics, health policy, law, philosophy, and theology--this book examines how conventional structures of accountability in law andmedical structure (structures paradoxically at odds with justice and safety) should be replaced by more ethically informed federal, state, and institutional policies. Accountability calls for public policy that creates not only systems capable of openness concerning safety and error-but policy that also delivers just compensation and honest and humane treatment to those patients and families who have suffered from harmful medical error.

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