Legal Issues in Quality for Healthcare Institutions

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 safety
• Enhances understanding of regulatory, compliance, medical malpractice, and medical errors as they relate to quality and patient safety
• Builds awareness of emerging areas such as health care fraud which represent priority areas to combat rising health care costs