title: Doctors in the executive suite: should the U.S. and U.K. be putting M.D. licensure at risk for shortfalls in institutional quality of care?
abstract: As our healthcare system becomes further managed, delivery organizations are reincreasingly relying upon physician executives to administer the delivery of care by other individual providers. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, this has led to instances in which physician disciplinary procedures have been invoked with respect to physicians who are perceived to be responsible for institutional defiiciencies. The author examines and analyzes the contrasting approaches taken in the two countries, and recommends an activist approach for disciplinary agencies faced with these circumstances.
authors.affiliation: Boston University School of Law, MA, USA.
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007325:Institutional Practice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008007:Licensure, Medical; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States