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Safety and Quality in Hospital Medical Care - AHMC801
This unit is offered on a pass/fail basis.
Safety and quality are vitally important and ongoing aspects of hospital care. This unit critically examines decision making and error in everyday life and progresses these concepts by focusing on medical errors, how to respond to error, how to discuss error with patients and colleagues, and how to prevent errors from reoccurring. Discussions also include examining how medical error is reported in the media and potential political and legal responses to error.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| When Offered: | SM8 - School of Medicine 8 |
| Staff Contact(s): | Professor John Cartmill |
| Prerequisites: |
Admission to MMedPrac or MLabQAMgt |
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| Assessed As: | Pass/Fail |
| Offered By: | Australian School of Advanced Medicine Faculty of Human Sciences |
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