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Author Healy, Judith

Title Improving health care safety and quality : reluctant regulators / Judith Healy
Published Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 328 pages) : illustrations
Series Law, ethics and governance series
Law, ethics and governance.
Contents 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
Summary Responding to the public concern 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. The book adopts a new approach to mapping developments in health care systems in Europe, North America and Australia and pieces together evidence of which regulatory strategies and mechanisms work well to ensure safer patient care. It identifies the regulatory bodies, the regulatory principles and the implementation strategies adopted to improve governance in health care systems and suggests a conceptual framework for responsive regulation. The book will be of interest to government actors, health care professionals and medico-legal scholars
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Medical care -- Law and legislation.
Medical care -- Evaluation.
Medical care -- Safety measures
Health facilities -- Safety measures
Delivery of Health Care -- legislation & jurisprudence
Health Facilities -- legislation & jurisprudence
Health Services -- legislation & jurisprudence
Quality of Health Care -- legislation & jurisprudence
Safety Management -- legislation & jurisprudence
Medical Audit
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety.
Medical care -- Safety measures
Medical care -- Law and legislation
Medical care -- Evaluation
Health facilities -- Safety measures
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010035140
ISBN 9780754676454
0754676455
1317118219
9781317118213
1317118200
9781317118206
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9781283015059
9786613015051
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