Patient Safety First: Responsive regulation in health care

ISBN-13: 9781742370583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str.

Judith Healy

Opis

Each year more people die in health care accidents than in road accidents. Increasingly complex medical treatments and overstretched health systems create more opportunities for things to go wrong, and they do. This title presents a systematic analysis of the issues, challenges, and outcomes surrounding patient safety in health care.

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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.