Improving health care safety and quality : reluctant regulators / Judith Healy.
Improving health care safety and quality : reluctant regulators / Judith Healy.
Improving health care safety and quality : reluctant regulators / Judith Healy.
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Publisher
Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Call Numbers
N363.1556/1
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xix, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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, an...
Publication information
Publisher
Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2011.
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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 analysing 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 d...
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Improving health care safety and quality : reluctant regulators / Judith Healy.
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Law, ethics and governance series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Date Copyright
c2011.
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N363.1556/1
Record Identifier
74Vvq3zjjRyg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvq3zjjRyg
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ISBN
9780754676454 (ebook : alk. paper)
9780754676447 (hardback : alk. paper)
DDC
363.1556
MMS ID
991006207689702626
