Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Tingle, John; Bark, Pippa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Patient safety is an issue which in recent years has grown to prominence in a number of countries' political and health service agendas. The World Health Organisation has launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety. Millions of patients, according to the Alliance, endure prolonged ill-health, disability and death caused by unreliable practices, services, and poor health care environments. At any given time 1.4 million people worldwide are suffering from an infection acquired in a health facility.

Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice explores the impact of legal systems on patient safety initiatives. It asks whether legal systems are being used in appropriate ways to support state and local managerial systems in developing patient safety procedures, and what alternative approaches can and should be utilized. The chapters in this collection explore the patient safety managerial structures that exist in countries where there is a developed patient safety infrastructure and culture. The legal structures of these countries are explored and related to major in-country patient safety issues such as consent to treatment protocols and guidelines, complaint handling, adverse incident reporting systems, and civil litigation systems, in order to draw comparisons and conclusions on patient safety.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136824395
• Artikelnr.: 38274034

Autorenporträt

John Tingle is Reader in Health Law at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Pippa Bark is Principal Research Fellow at CHIME, University College London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Development of a Patient Safety Policy Agenda
John Tingle 1. Managing Safety
Quality and Risk
Ash Samanta and Jo Samanta 2. Pre-Trial Clinical Negligence Issues
Charles Foster 3. The Tort of Negligence and Patient Safety
Jose Miola 4. Medical Ethics and Patient Safety
Nils Hoppe 5. Psychological Aspects of Patient Safety
Pippa Bark 6. Blame Free Reporting: International Developments
Johan Legemaate 7. Economic Aspects of Hospital Patient Safety
Stephen Heasell 8. Patient Safety in Secondary Care
Ash Samanta and Jo Samanta 9. Patient Safety in Mental Health Care
Eva Sundin
James Houston and Jamie Murphy 10. Regulating Patient Safety in the European Union: Realistic Aspiration or Unattainable Goal?
Jean V. McHale 11. Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management in Germany
Marc Stauch 12. Patient Safety and Clinical Risk in Canada
Joan M Gilmour 13. Patient Safety and Clinical Risk in the USA
Ronni P. Solomon 14. Patient Safety in American Health Care: Regulatory Models
Barry R. Furrow 15. Responding to Patient Harm: Patient Safety Initiatives in Australia
Merrilyn Walton