The optimal choice of regulatory approach for securing patient safety is an important
problem. In this review article, we show how insights from the field of regulatory studies can …

This paper explores how current 'patient safety'reforms offer to change the regulation of
medicine. Drawing on existing literature, it is argued that this policy agenda represents a …

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 …

After decades of inattention to the problem of medical injuries, patient safety is now
occupying a prominent place on the health policy agenda and garnering renewed regulatory …

Responding to the public concern caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of
unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analysing the health …

Rather than continuing to try to measure the width and depths of the quality chasm, a
legitimate question is how does one actually begin to close the quality chasm? One way to …

Abstract When SynergyHealth, St. Joseph's Hospital of West Bend, Wisconsin, decided to
relocate and build an 82-bed acute care facility, we recognized the opportunity to design a …

We articulate an intellectual history and a definition, description and model of patient safety.
We define patient safety as a discipline in the health care professions that applies safety …

Sharpe presents the final report of a two-year Hastings Center research project on patient
safety. Among the topics discussed are the values, principles, and perceived obligations …

Mannion and Braithwaite outline a new paradigm for studying and improving patient safety–
Safety II. In this response, I argue that Safety I should not be dismissed simply because the …