Behind Closed Doors: Accountability and Responsibility in Patient Care

Open Access

1 February 2000

journal article
review article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Vol. 25 (1) , 28-47
https://doi.org/10.1076/0360-5310(200002)25:1;1-V;FT028

Abstract

In this paper, I examine the notion of accountability and its historical evolution in health care. Using medical mistakes and adverse patient outcomes as my focus, I examine the interests served by particular models of accountability and argue for a model of collective fiduciary responsibility in U.S. health care today.

Keywords

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
ANALYTICAL APPROACH
HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
NINETEENTH CENTURY
PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
TWENTIETH CENTURY

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