Ethics of patient safety and quality in healthcare
Year of award: 2012
Grantholders
Prof Mary Dixon-Woods
University of Leicester
Project summary
Professor Dixon-Woods is identifying and characterising the moral dilemmas involved in providing safe, good quality care, and will generate principles and moral rules to help guide the analysis and resolution of these challenges. She is producing a critical, empirically informed account of accountability systems, including the ethical issues raised by using administrative and clinical data as a means of staff surveillance and discipline.