Steve Clarke / Justin Oakley (eds.)

Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability

The Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeon Performance
Herausgeber: Clarke, Steve; Oakley, Justin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book analyses and evaluates ethical and social implications of recent developments in reporting surgeon performance. It contains chapters by leading international specialists in philosophy, bioethics, epidemiology, medical administration, surgery, and law, demonstrating the diversity and complexity of debates about this topic, raising considerations of patient autonomy, accountability, justice, and the quality and safety of medical services. Performance information on individual cardiac surgeons has been publicly available in parts of the US for over a decade. Survival rates for individual cardiac surgeons in the UK have recently been released to the public. This trend is being driven by various factors, including concerns about accountability, patients' rights, quality and safety of medical care, and the need to avoid scandals in medical care. This trend is likely to extend to other countries, to other clinicians, and to professions beyond health care, making this text an essential addition to the literature available.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780521687782
• ISBN-10: 0521687780
• Artikelnr.: 22579555

Autorenporträt

Dr Steve Clarke is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Stuart University, Australia, and a Research Fellow with the Programme on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford.
Dr Justin Oakley is Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction: accountability, informed consent and
clinician performance information Justin Oakley and Steve Clarke; Part I.
Accountability: Introduction; 1. Clinician report cards and the limits of
evidence-based patient choice Michael Parker; 2. Report cards for
institutions, not individuals Neil Levy; 3. Safety, accountability, and
'choice' after the Bristol inquiry Tom Sorell; 4. Public reports: putting
patients in the picture requires a new relationship between doctors and
patients Merrilyn Walton; 5. Adverse event disclosure: benefits and
drawbacks for patients and clinicians Paul Barach and Michael Cantor; 6.
Report cards and performance monitoring Stephen Bolsin and Liadain
Freestone; Part II. Informed Consent: Introduction; 7. Informed consent and
surgeons' performance Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley; 8. The value and
practical limits of informed consent Merle Spriggs; 9. Against the informed
consent argument for surgeon report cards David Neil; 10. Trust and the
limits of knowledge David Macintosh; 11. Surgeons' report cards,
heuristics, biases and informed consent Steve Clarke; 12. Report cards,
informed consent and market forces A. J. Walsh; Part III. Reporting
Performance Information: Introduction; 13. Is the reporting of an
individual surgeon's clinical performance doing more harm than good for
patient care? Silvana F. Marasco and Joseph E. Ibrahim; 14. Examining the
link between publicly reporting health care quality and quality improvement
Rachel M. Werner and David A. Asch; 15. Hospital and clinician performance
data: what it can and cannot tell us Paul Aylin; 16. An ethical analysis of
the defensive surgery objection to individual surgeon report cards Justin
Oakley; 17. Surgeon report cards and the concept of defensive medicine
Yujin Nagasawa; 18. Training, innovation and surgeons' report cards Tony
Eyers; 19. Doctors' report cards: a legal perspective Ian Freckelton.