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Regulating patient safety : the end of professional dominance? / Oliver Quick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quick, Oliver, author.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (vi, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- 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:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2017).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511844386
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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