Patient ombudsmen in seven European countries: An effective way to implement patients' rights?

European Journal of Health Law

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 343-357

  Fallberg, Lars ^a   Mackenney, Stephen ^b  

^a NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

^b NHS Clinical Governance Support Team ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; BEHAVIOR; COMPETENCE; ETHICS; EUROPE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FINLAND; GREECE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INDEPENDENCE; ISRAEL; LAW; LAW ENFORCEMENT; NORWAY; PATIENT OMBUDSMAN SYSTEM; PATIENT RIGHT; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EUROPE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 2642549028     PISSN: 09290273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157180903772757812     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Fallberg L., Mackenney S. (Eds). Protecting Patients Rights. A comparative study of the Ombudsman in Health Care. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2003.
2. Consolidated by the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993.
3. Idem: edited extract from chapter by Gerard Bachinger, Spokesman of the Austrian Arbeitsgemeinschaft Patientenanwalt (ARGE PA), Austria.
4. Idem: edited extract from chapter by Lars Fallberg, Chief Executive, Picker Scandinavia & Research Fellow at the Nordic School of Public Health and Mervi Kattelus, Senior Advisor on Health Law, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Helsinki, Finland.
5. Idem: edited extract from chapter by Eftichis Fitrakis, Senior investigator at the office of the Greek Ombudsman and Ioanna Arsenopoulou, General Director of the Regional Health System of Dodecanese, ex-Senior investigator at the office of the Greek Ombudsman.
6. Idem: edited extract from chapter by Judit Sándor, Associate professor of law and political science at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
7. Galya M. Hildesheimer, LLM, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research & Carmel Shalev, JSD, Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research.
8. Idem: edited extract from chapter by Olav Molven, Associate Professor at the Diakonhjemmet College, Oslo, Norway.
9. Idem: edited extract from chapter by Dr. Philip Giddings, Senior Lecturer, University of Reading. United Kingdom.