Kaput Sarah
Seton Hall University School of Law, USA.
J Health Law. 2005 Winter;38(1):95-119.
In the wake of the patient safety movement, there is a glaring disconnect between the increasing responsibilities placed on hospital board members and the limited accountability for those board members if they fail to meet their responsibilities. This Article discusses how the effectiveness of new patient safety laws is diminished by the lack of accountability of nonprofit board members. The Article suggests that an expanded notion of corporatefiduciary duties, enhanced by shifts in social norms, would contribute to patient safety reform.
在患者安全运动之后，医院董事会成员所承担的责任不断增加，但如果这些董事会成员未能履行职责，他们所面临的问责却十分有限，这一明显的脱节现象便凸显出来。本文探讨了非营利性董事会成员缺乏问责制是如何削弱新患者安全法的有效性的。文章指出，社会规范的转变强化了企业受托责任的扩展概念，这将有助于推动患者安全改革。
