Risk Control and Quality Management in Neurosurgery

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Principles of Risk and Safety....Pages 3-11
Techniques for Hazard Analysis and their Use at CERN....Pages 13-18
Learning from Errors in Aviation....Pages 19-21
Safety of Novel Projects, the Battle Against Murphy’s Law....Pages 23-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
The Psychology of Team Interaction....Pages 33-38
Crew Coordination in Aviation....Pages 39-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Principles of Quality Management in Medicine: The British Concept....Pages 45-52
Quality Assurance in Neurosurgery: United States Concepts....Pages 53-58
Principles and Problems of Assessing the Results of Medical Treatment....Pages 59-63
Impacts of Socio-Economic Restrictions on Quality in Neurosurgery and other Specialities....Pages 65-67
Quality, Risk and Health Care: Another View....Pages 69-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Quality Management in Neuropathology....Pages 73-77
Quality Management in Laboratory Medicine....Pages 79-82
Patient Information in the Light of Quality Assurance....Pages 83-86
What Diagnostics are Necessary Before and after Surgery?....Pages 87-88
Standards of Neurosurgical Procedures....Pages 89-92
Standards of Neuroanesthesia....Pages 93-96
Towards European Standards in Neuroradiology....Pages 97-100
Quality Factors in Interventional Neuroradiology....Pages 101-105
Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery....Pages 107-110
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Quality Management in Neurosurgical Nursing....Pages 111-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Keeping Track of Critical Incidents and Complications....Pages 117-124
Principles of the Morbidity and Mortality Conference....Pages 125-126
Mechanisms to Improve Treatment Standards in Neurosurgery, Cerebral Aneurysm Surgery as Example....Pages 127-134
Mechanisms to Improve Teamworking in Neurosurgery....Pages 135-138
A Complication Conference for Internal Quality Control at the Neurosurgical Department of the University of Heidelberg....Pages 139-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Proficiency in Neurosurgery....Pages 149-152
Competency Based Residency Training: the Next Advance in Graduate Medical Education....Pages 153-158
The Semi-Annual Residency Rotation Summary: A Means to Assess the Quality of Neurosurgical Training....Pages 159-164
Continuing Education — The EANS Concepts....Pages 165-167
Continuing Education: The British Experience....Pages 169-173
Is There a Need for Periodical Recertification?....Pages 175-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
How to Control the Risk of Novel Surgical Procedures....Pages 179-184
Measuring the Importance of Scientific Results — in Neurosurgery....Pages 185-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Quality Management in Hospitals — Quo Vadis?....Pages 191-195
How can the ISO 9000 Concept be Applied to Neurosurgery?....Pages 197-200
Introduction of ISO 9000 and other Quality Concepts Applied to Neurosurgery....Pages 201-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
“Emerging Unwanted Side Effects of Quality Control, or the Value of the Immeasurable Qualities of Medical Care”....Pages 205-208
Ethics and Quality of Neurosurgical Care....Pages 209-212
Research and Clinical Routine in the next Century,Segregation or Cooperative Networks?....Pages 213-215
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Guidelines for Guidelines....Pages 217-223
Back Matter....Pages 225-227