Patient Safety First: Responsive Regulation in Health Care

Judith Healy (Editor), Paul Dugdale (Editor)

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Abstract

Each year more people die in health care accidents than in road accidents. Increasingly complex medical treatments and overstretched health systems create more opportunities for things to go wrong, and they do.

Patient safety is now a major regulatory issue around the world, and Australia has been at its leading edge. Self-regulation by professional and industry groups is now widely regarded as insufficient, and government is stepping in.

In Patient Safety First, leading experts survey the governance of clinical care. Framed within a theory of responsive regulation, core regulatory approaches to patient safety are analysed for their effectiveness, including information systems, corporate and public institution governance models, the design of safe systems, the role of medical boards, open disclosure and public inquiries.

Patient Safety First includes chapters by Bruce Barraclough, John Braithwaite, Stephen Duckett and Ian Freckleton SC. It is essential reading for all medical and legal professionals working in patient safety as well as readers in public health, health policy and governance.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationCrows Nest, NSW
PublisherAllen & Unwin
Number of pages368
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781003116677
ISBN (Print)9781742370583
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

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  • Regulatory Strategies for Safer Patient Health Care

    Healy, J. & Dugdale, P., 2009, Patient Safety First: Responsive Regulation in Health Care. Healy, J. & Dugdale, P. (eds.). 1st ed. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, p. 1-23

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