Assessing Risk in Healthcare Collaborative Settings
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Risk management in health care has developed and matured over the last many years in the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia (Vincent, 1995, p. 2). At its origins, the focus was primarily on developing a framework for controlling litigation, a major worry for clinicians and hospitals. Studies of medical error in health care have brought a growing awareness of the scale of the problems directly and indirectly causing harm to patients (Reason, 2008, p. 92; Toft, 2001, p. 40; Walshe & Boaden, 2006, pp. 1-6). The direct financial costs of these events, in terms of additional treatABSTRACT
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