Regulating patient safety : the end of professional dominance? / Oliver Quick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quick, Oliver, author.

Contributor:

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Series:

Cambridge bioethics and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical errors--Prevention--Law and legislation.

Medical errors.

Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.

Patients.

Patients--Safety measures.

Medical care--Law and legislation.

Medical care.

Medical laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

vi, 215 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Systematically improving patient safety is of the utmost importance, but it is also an extremely complex and challenging task. This illuminating study evaluates the role of professionalism, regulation and law in seeking to improve safety, arguing that the 'medical dominance' model is ill-suited to this aim, which instead requires a patient-centred vision of professionalism. It brings together literatures on professions, regulation and trust, while examining the different legal mechanisms for responding to patient safety events. Oliver Quick includes an examination in areas of law which have received little attention in this context, such as health and safety law, and coronial law, and contends in particular that the active involvement of patients in their own treatment is fundamental to ensuring their safety"-- Provided by publisher.

"This illuminating study evaluates the role of professionalism, regulation and law in seeking to improve safety, arguing that the 'medical dominance' model is ill-suited to this aim, which instead requires a patient-centred vision of professionalism. It brings together literatures on professions, regulation and trust, while examining the different legal mechanisms for responding to patient safety events"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The rise and fall of professional dominance; 2. The problem of patient safety; 3. Regulation and trust; 4. Professional regulation and patient safety; 5. Complaining and claiming; 6. The criminalisation of medical harm; 7. Coronial investigations and inquests; 8. Professional responsibility: speaking up and saying sorry; 9. Patients, carers and safety; Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

ISBN:

9780521190992

0521190991

OCLC:

960841614