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Legal Issues in Quality for Healthcare Institutions
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2025
- Editor: Ramesh Sachdeva
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 9 3 2 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 9 3 3 - 0
Legal Issues in Quality for Healthcare Institutions provides the perspective of practicing physicians, lawyers, and academic legal scholars to comprehensively address the implic… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLegal 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
Physicians, researchers, legal scholars, regulatory and compliance officers working in hospitals and acute care facilities
1. The legal field shaping healthcare quality and safety
2. The role of legal evidence in health care quality and safety
3. Compliance and Regulatory issues in hospitals and healthcare institutions: Implications for Clinicians and Administrators
4. Healthcare Fraud, False Claims, whistle blower suits and its impact on Quality in hospitals and nursing homes
5. Health Care System Malpractice, Tort Reform and Quality of Healthcare delivery
6. Antitrust issues, Health system mergers, and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
7. International perspectives of Law and Healthcare Quality
8. Emerging Legal Issues in Healthcare Quality and Safety – Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and New Technology
9. Glossary of Legal and Medical Terms
2. The role of legal evidence in health care quality and safety
3. Compliance and Regulatory issues in hospitals and healthcare institutions: Implications for Clinicians and Administrators
4. Healthcare Fraud, False Claims, whistle blower suits and its impact on Quality in hospitals and nursing homes
5. Health Care System Malpractice, Tort Reform and Quality of Healthcare delivery
6. Antitrust issues, Health system mergers, and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
7. International perspectives of Law and Healthcare Quality
8. Emerging Legal Issues in Healthcare Quality and Safety – Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and New Technology
9. Glossary of Legal and Medical Terms
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443289323
- eBook ISBN: 9780443289330
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Ramesh Sachdeva
Dr. Sachdeva has an extensive background in quality efforts, having served in various leadership roles at the national level. He was the medical director of Quality Initiatives for the American Academy of Pediatrics and held the position of corporate vice president and chief quality officer for the Children's Hospital and Health System of Wisconsin. Recently, he was senior vice president for Strategic Affairs, Regional Strategy, and Quality at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University.
With his expertise, Dr. Sachdeva has led national grants as the principal investigator, including a significant project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to develop pediatric quality measures.
Throughout his career, Dr. Sachdeva has held clinical, executive, and academic positions at prestigious institutions such as Baylor College of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, SUNY Upstate Medical University, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Sachdeva has earned two doctorates: a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Texas and a DBA in management sciences from the United Kingdom. He also holds a JD degree from Marquette University Law School. His expertise in healthcare quality measures has garnered national recognition, and he has been consistently listed on the Best Doctors in America by U.S. News & World Report since 2005.Affiliations and expertise
Chief of Critical Care Medicine, USA