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| Exhibits, Figures, Tables, Photographs, and Appendixes | |
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| The Contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Development of a Risk Management Program | |
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| Risk Management Program Development | |
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| Key Structural Elements of the Risk Management Program | |
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| Scope of the Risk Management Program | |
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| The Risk Management Process | |
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| Evolution of the Risk Management Program | |
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| Selecting an Appropriate Risk Management Program Structure | |
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| Assessing Areas of the Organization That Need Risk Management | |
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| Key Components for Getting Started | |
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| Writing a Risk Management Program Plan | |
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| Achieving Program Acceptance | |
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| The Health Care Risk Management Professional | |
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| The Risk Manager's Job: Functional Areas of Responsibility | |
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| Health Care Risk Management Across a Spectrum of Settings | |
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| Required Skills for the Successful Health Care Risk Management Professional | |
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| Risk Management Ethics | |
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| A Profile of the Health Care Risk Management Professional | |
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| Education and Professional Recognition Programs | |
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| Patient Safety and the Risk Management Professional: New Challenges and Opportunities | |
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| The Scope of Medical Errors | |
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| Seeking Solutions: What Are the Causes of Medical Errors? | |
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| Health Care Legal Concepts | |
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| Legal Issues Common to All Health Care Providers | |
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| Legal Issues Related to Specific Health Care Providers | |
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| Governance of the Health Care Organization | |
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| Essential Responsibilities of the Hospital Board | |
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| Basic Legal Duties of Health Care Trustees | |
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| Lessons from the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector | |
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| Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations | |
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| The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | |
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| The Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 | |
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| Risk Management and the Board | |
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| The Medical Staff, Risk Management, and the Board | |
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| Early Warning Systems for the Identification of Organizational Risks | |
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| Early Identification of Exposure to Loss | |
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| Food and Drug Administration | |
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| Institute for Safe Medication Practices, United States Pharmacopeia, and National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention | |
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| Medical Event Reporting System--Transfusion Medicine | |
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| Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System | |
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| Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative | |
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| Other Voluntary Programs | |
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| Standardizing a Patient Safety Taxonomy: The National Quality Forum | |
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| Protecting Sensitive Information | |
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| The Risk Management Professional and Medication Safety | |
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| Latent and Active Failures | |
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| Systems Thinking | |
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| Risk Management: A Prioritizing Approach | |
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| Ethics in Patient Care | |
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| Ethical Principles and Moral Obligations | |
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| Research | |
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| Institutional Review Boards | |
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| Patient Self-Determination Act | |
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| "Do Not Resuscitate": Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment | |
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| Documentation and the Medical Record | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Record Retention | |
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| Release of Records | |
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| Ownership of Medical Records | |
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| Medical Record Audits | |
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| Documentation and Risk Management | |
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| Emerging Risk Exposures | |
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| The Risk Manageme | |