Legal Issues in Quality for Healthcare Institutions provides the perspective of practicing physicians, lawyers, and academic legal scholars to comprehensively address the implications for quality of care and patient safety both from a legal, medical, and improvement science standpoint. Hospital administrators, physicians, nurses, researchers, legal scholars, as well as regulatory and compliance officers working in hospitals and acute care facilities will find this to be a helpful resource in understanding and addressing the many facets and issues in the field of medicine and law related to quality and patient safety. Provides better understanding of how the field of law is shaping healthcare quality and patient safetyEnhances understanding of regulatory, compliance, medical malpractice, and medical errors as these relate to quality and patient safetyBuilds awareness of emerging areas such as health care fraud which represent priority areas to combat rising health care costs INDICE: 1. The legal field shaping healthcare quality and safety2. The role of legal evidence in health care quality and safety3. Compliance and Regulatory issues in hospitals and healthcare institutions: Implications for Clinicians and Administrators4. Healthcare Fraud, False Claims, whistle blower suits and its impact on Quality in hospitals and nursing homes5. Health Care System Malpractice, Tort Reform and Quality of Healthcare delivery6. Antitrust issues, Health system mergers, and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)7. International perspectives of Law and Healthcare Quality8. Emerging Legal Issues in Healthcare Quality and Safety - Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and New Technology9. Glossary of Legal and Medical Terms
- ISBN: 978-0-443-28932-3
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2025
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés