Regulating Health Care Safety: Enforcement and Responsibility Attribution in Response to Iatrogenic Harm
- Publisher:
- Thomson Reuters (Professional)
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of Law and Medicine, 2022, 29, (1), pp. 1-19
- Issue Date:
- 2022-07-31
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The regulation of health care safety is undertaken in the name of the public and is motivated and justified by their protection. This regulatory action generates debate concerning the proper limits of responsibility attribution
and enforcement, while the actions and opinion – both imagined and real – of the public loom large in this field. However, there exists limited knowledge of public opinion on key aspects of health care safety enforcement and responsibility attribution following iatrogenic harm. This article reports on the results of a survey-administered experimental study to determine how the Australian general public attributes responsibility, moral censure and enforcement actions in the event of health care safety failures in hospital and outpatient settings.
The study provide evidence that the general public are sensitive to corporate and individual sources of error;
attribute responsibility in a pluralistic manner; differentiate between recklessness and negligence;
and will attempt both formal and social enforcement actions in response to harm.
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