title: Healthcare complaints handling systems: a comparison between Britain, Australia and Taiwan.
abstract: This paper explores the health care complaints handling reforms enacted in Britain, Australia and Taiwan. A documentary search for policy documents, reports and studies related to the reforms of the health care complaints handling system was conducted. A keyword search was performed within PubMed and ProQuest for the period 1985-2009 to identify relevant articles. The study found that the major difference in health care complaints handling systems between countries, is the mechanism for running a complaints system. Both Britain and Australia have attempted to incorporate patient complaints into their national quality systems. Their intention was to set up mechanisms to create an effective bridge, at a national policy level, between the patient complaints management system and the quality management system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Healthcare Information and Management, Ming-Chuan University, Taiwan, ROC. hsieh_yahui@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Sophie Yahui
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Hsieh
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D013624:Taiwan; D006113:United Kingdom