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ArticleFuture hospital journal2014

The need for a regulatory rethink: a perspective from Australia.

Stephen Duckett

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Article in Future hospital journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Stephen DuckettHealth Program, Grattan Institute, Victoria, Australia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional 'hierarchical' regulation involves checks and balances and external accountability and review bodies. There have been high profile failures of this approach in England (Mid Staffs) and Australia (Bundaberg, Queensland). The regulatory framework needs to be transformed to recognise the increasing use of market and market-like mechanisms in health care. Improvement in the ability to measure quality and safety of care using routine (already collected) data facilitates this. New regulation needs to ensure quality and financial incentives are aligned. New instruments such as incorporating safety/quality measures into service descriptions, use of patient reported outcome measures, and making information about expected outcomes of care to patients available, ought to be used more widely. Improved data capture, including whether a diagnosis was present on admission, will help in improving quality and safety of care and its measurement.

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pay for performanceQualityroutine datasafety

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PMID31098060
PMCPMC6438242

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