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Autore: | Healy Judith |
Titolo: | Improving health care safety and quality [[electronic resource] ] : reluctant regulators / / by Judith Healy |
Pubblicazione: | Surrey, U.K. ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.15/56 |
Soggetto topico: | Medical care - Law and legislation |
Medical care - Evaluation | |
Medical care - Safety measures | |
Health facilities - Safety measures | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Improving health care safety and quality |
ISBN: | 1-315-58804-8 |
1-317-11821-9 | |
1-317-11820-0 | |
1-283-01505-6 | |
9786613015051 | |
0-7546-7645-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791461703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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