Quality of Care and the Basic Sources of Law
Introduction
Quality of care is the level of value that is given by any healthcare resource. It is an evaluation of whether something is good and whether it is suitable for what it is purposed for. The basic sources of law are the rules that make it possible for any state to govern its territories. The quality of care has changed over time and a lot of improvements have been noted in recent times.
In the 18th century up to the recent years, healthcare and quality of care have shown great advances in the healthcare industry (Marjoua & Bozic 2012). In the 18th century, hospitals were poor and had very bad reputations for the quality of care being worse. The medical practitioners then had little medical knowledge and were not able to research and this caused patients not to get cured. There is an improvement in infrastructure, systems have been developed to help monitor and increase the effectiveness in healthcare. Improvement in the quality of care has also been associated with good leadership.
The common law is the form of law that is consequential from decisions made by the judiciary in courts and similar tribunals. Most of the legal principles and policies that are used today courts in the United States originated from the English common law (Jones & Bartlett 2015). Statutory law is written law that is passed by the legislature. Administrative law is the body of law that governs the administrative activities of the government. Common law is prevalent in healthcare because the court has to be involved and the judicial decision has to be made.
Conclusion
The quality of care has changed from the past years and has improved. Infrastructure has improved and the systems have helped in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. The basic sources of law have made it possible for states to govern their territories. The laws also help in judicial decisions in healthcare.
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