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  • Still Not Safe

    Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine

    by Robert Wears, Kathleen Sutcliffe ...
    The term "patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community -- in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities -- sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US attributed to medical errors each year. But what was causing these medical errors? And what made these accidents to rise to epidemic levels, seemingly ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Resilient Health Care, Volume 2

    The Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work

    by Robert L. Wears, Erik Hollnagel ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering
    Health systems everywhere are expected to meet increasing public and political demands for accessible, high-quality care. Policy-makers, managers, and clinicians use their best efforts to improve efficiency, safety, quality, and economic viability. One solution has been to mimic approaches that have been shown to work in other domains, such as quality management, lean production, and high ... Read more

    $247.34 CAD

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    Still Not Safe

    Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine

    by Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient-safety movement—and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization. Physician Robert Wears and organizational theorist Kathleen Sutcliffe trace the origins of patient safety to the emergence of market trends that challenged the place of doctors in the larger medical ecosystem: the ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Delivering Resilient Health Care

    Edited by Erik Hollnagel, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Robert L. Wears ...
    Health care is under tremendous pressure regarding efficiency, safety, and economic viability. It has responded by adopting techniques that have been useful in other industries, such as quality management, lean production, and high reliability – although with limited, and all-too-often disappointing, results. The Resilient Health Care Network (RHCN) has worked since 2011 to facilitate the ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Resilient Health Care, Volume 3

    Reconciling Work-as-Imagined and Work-as-Done

    Edited by Jeffrey Braithwaite, Robert L. Wears, Erik Hollnagel ...
    This book is the 3rd volume in the Resilient Health Care series. Resilient health care is a product of both the policy and managerial efforts to organize, fund and improve services, and the clinical care which is delivered directly to patients. This volume continues the lines of thought in the first two books. Where the first volume provided the rationale and basic concepts of RHC and the second ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Financial Accounting

    by John Stittle, Robert T Wearing ...
    Series series SAGE Course Companions series
    The SAGE Course Companion on Financial Accounting is an accessible introduction to the subject that will help readers to master key concepts and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. It provides support on how to revise for exams and prepare for and write assessed pieces.Designed to compliment existing textbooks for the course, the companion provides:- Easy access to the ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Cases in Corporate Governance

    by Robert T Wearing ...
    `Wearing has written a superb and highly provocative book that does an excellent job of introducing students to theories of corporate governance and exposing complex fact situations in a clear and well-written manner′ - The International Journal of AccountingWith in-depth analysis of nine different cases, several of which have influenced the codes and regulations of corporate behaviour in the UK ... Read more

    $117.59 CAD