2 options
Improving health care safety and quality : reluctant regulators / by Judith Healy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Healy, Judith.
- Series:
- Law, ethics and governance.
- Law, ethics and governance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Law and legislation.
- Medical care.
- Medical care--Evaluation.
- Medical care--Safety measures.
- Health facilities--Safety measures.
- Health facilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Responding to the alarm 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. It will be of key interest to government actors, health care professionals and medico-legal scholars.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-58804-8
- 1-317-11821-9
- 1-317-11820-0
- 1-283-01505-6
- 9786613015051
- 0-7546-7645-5
- 9781315588049
- OCLC:
- 705536096
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.