PATIENT SAFETY

摘要

In writing this book, Judith Healy says she is responding to the public concern caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients. In doing so she draws on her experience of analysing the healthcare systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and healthcare quality. The book maps out developments in healthcare systems in Europe, North America and Australia and pieces together evidence of those regulatory strategies and mechanisms which work well to ensure safer patient care. It identifies the regulatory bodies, the regulatory principles and the implementation strategies adopted to improve governance in healthcare systems and suggests a conceptual framework for responsive regulation.