Judith Healy

Improving Health Care Safety and Quality (eBook, PDF)

Reluctant Regulators

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Responding to the alarm caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analyzing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and health care quality. It will be of key interest to government actors, health care professionals and medico-legal scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317118213
• Artikelnr.: 45095575

Autorenporträt

Judith Healy is at the RegNet, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface: why this book?
Introduction: why regulate?
How safe is health care?
Regulatory actors: who governs health care?
Regulating the health professions
Safety cultures and safety systems
Regulating staff: internal management
Regulating organizations: external reviews
Regulation by enforcement: laws, money and monitoring
Regulation by patients
Responsive regulation: trust and transparency
Index.