New Rules: Regulation, Markets, and the Quality of American Health Care

ISBN-13: 9780787901493 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 420 str.

Troyen A. Brennan; Donald M. Berwick; Donald M. Berwick

Opis

New Rules presents a comprehensive review of the evolution of the health care regulatory process and provides guidelines and recommendations for converting regulation from a meaningless waste of resources into a system that truly can help practitioners provide better care. New Rules is written for health care regulators, health care executives, scholars of public health, health care administrators, public administrators, and all those interested in the modern quality movement.

Recenzje

"Brennen and Berwick′s diagnosis and prescription for changes should be considered by every person who writes a rule, seeks compliance with a rule, or depAnds on a rule to obtain bood or better quality health care." ––Paul Batalaen, M.D., director of Health Care Improvement Leadership Development, Dartmouth Medical School

"In their timely, well–written and thought–provoking book New Rules: Regulation, Markets, and the Quality of American Health Care, Brennan and Berwick develop a framework and guidelines for considering the types of regulations that will best support improved health care delivery in the United States." ––Michael Schwartz, International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Spis treści

1. The Role of Regulation
2. The Regulatory Landscape Through the Early 1970s
3. The History of Research on Health Care Quality
4. The Evolution of Health Care and Its Regulation
5. The Federalization of Health Care Oversight: Implications for Quality
6. Regulation and Quality Improvement in Health Care Today
7. Regulating for Improvement: A Prescription

O autorze

TROYEN A. BRENNAN is professor of Law and Public Health and professor of Medicine at Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State (1991). DONALD M. BERWICK is president and CEO of the Institute for Health Care Improvement in Boston. He is coauthor (with B. Godfrey and J. Roessner) of the best–selling Curing Health Care (Jossey–Bass, 1990).

Blurb

The authors of New Rules tell the story of regulation in the health care industry. They outline the evolution of health care regulation over the last quarter century, and describe ways to convert the system into one that can help practitioners provide better care. Finally, they offer helpful ?prescriptions? for change in specific arenas of regulation.