Developing a clinical risk management strategy.
The nature of most wound-care treatments makes clinical risk inevitable. Nevertheless, practitioners can do much to protect themselves. Mark Elster and Lorraine Grothier outline four key measures that will help them do this.
Elster
M
M
Maldon and Chelmsford Primary Care Trust, UK.
Grothier
L
L
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009737:Nursing Records; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing*