Patient safety, law policy and practice

This book explores the impact of legal systems on patient safety initiatives and asks whether legal systems are being used in appropriate ways to support development of patient safety procedures. It covers; development of a patient safety policy agenda; managing safety, quality and risk; pre-trial clinical negligence issues; the tort of negligence and patient safety; medical ethics and patient safety; psychological aspects of patient safety; blame free reporting - international developments; economic aspects of hospital patient safety; patient safety in secondary care; patient safety in mental health care; regulating patient safety in the European union - realistic aspiration or unattainable goal?; patient safety and clinical risk management in Germany; patient safety and clinical risk in Canada; patient safety and clinical risk in the USA; responding to patient harm: patient safety initiatives in Australia.