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Safety and Quality in Hospital 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 happening again. 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 Day - School of Medicine 8 |
| Staff Contact(s): | Professor John Cartmill |
| Prerequisites: |
Admission to DAdvSurg or DAdvMed or MAdvSurg or MAdvMed or MSurg or MMed or MMedPrac or DClinPrac or GradDipSpSurg or GradDipSpMed or GradCertClinLship or MLabQAMgt |
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| Assessed As: | Pass/Fail |
| Offered By: | Australian School of Advanced Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences |
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