Learning from medical errors
Subtitle: legal issues
By: Anh Vu T. Nguyen and Dung A. Nguyen ; foreword by David S. Starr.
Contributors: Nguyen, Dung A.
Publisher: Radcliffe
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Medical Errors -- prevention & control; Medical Errors -- legislation & jurisprudence; Clinical Competence; Medical errors -- Prevention; Physicians -- Malpractice; Defensive medicine
Description: Focuses on key legal issues, including medical documentation, which reduce risk and liability when handled correctly. It contains chapters on difficult patients and special issues for emergency physicians. The case-based format demonstrates clinical relevance and useful examples are drawn from office, hospital and community settings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The progress note.; title: Good progress note: putting it all together.; title: What you should not place in a progress note.; title: Things to avoid doing clinically.; title: Dealing with the 'difficult patient'.; title: Clinical tips to decrease liability in your practice: part 1.; title: Clinical tips to decrease liability in your practice: pat 2.; title: Things that may go wrong (but are out of your control).; title: Other legal issues involving emergency physicians: part 1.; title: Other legal issues involving emergency physicians: part 2.; title: What to do after you have been sued.