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Risk in Medicine: Early Developments to the 1980s

In: Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare

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  • Sara Melo

    (Queen’s University Belfast)

  • Matthias Beck

    (Queen’s University Belfast)

Abstract

The application of risk management techniques to healthcare quality and patient safety is a relatively recent phenomenon, dating to the period from about the late 1960s to the 1990s, when a series of studies highlighted the incidence of iatrogenic events (see, e.g., Shimmel, 1964; Girdwood, 1974; Lakshmanan, Hershey, and Breslau, 1986). Despite this relatively recent application, the relationship between risk thinking and medicine is much older, dating back to the creation of probability theory and descriptive statistical analysis during the European Enlightenment. The first part of this chapter briefly reviews the historical relationship between risk thinking and medicine. This is followed by a discussion of the evolving literature on the hazards of healthcare, or iatrogenic disease more generally.

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  • Sara Melo & Matthias Beck, 2014. "Risk in Medicine: Early Developments to the 1980s," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare, chapter 2, pages 32-47, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-35199-9_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137351999_2
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