Patient Safety First: Responsive Regulation in Health Care

ISBN-13: 9780367718909 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 368 str.

Judith Healy; Paul Dugdale

Opis

More people die each year in hospital accidents than in car accidents. This is a much needed systematic analysis of current issues, challenges and outcomes surrounding safety in patient health care in Australia.

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Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

1. Regulatory strategies for safer patient health care

2. Leading from behind with plural regulation

3. International trends in patient safety governance

4. Voluntary initiatives by clinicians

5. Integrating corporate and clinical governance

6. Transforming clinical governance in Queensland Health

7. Regulating health professionals

8. Non-disciplinary pathways in practitioner regulation

9. Regulating clinical practice

10. Surgeon report cards

11. Disclosure of medical injury

12. Does litigation against doctors and hospitals improve quality?

13. Hospital licensure, certification and accreditation

14. Connecting health care through information technology

15. Do public inquiries improve health care?

Index

O autorze

Judith Healy is Associate Professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. She is co-editor of Hospitals in a Changing Europe and Accessing Health Care.

Paul Dugdale is Director of Chronic Disease Management for ACT Health and Associate Professor of Public Health at the Australian National University. He is the author of Doing Health Policy in Australia.