Legal check-up for medical practice
Subtitle: essential guide for the health care team
By: Sal Fiscina, Janet B. Seifert.
Contributors: Seifert, Janet.
Publisher: Mosby
Published: 1997
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Medical laws and legislation -- United States.; Physicians -- Malpractice -- United States.; Medical jurisprudence -- United States.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: label: Part One
title: Practice Check-Up
pagenum: 1; label: Part Two
title: Check-Up Files
pagenum: 17; label: 1
title: Practice Scope
pagenum: 19; title: Qualifications
pagenum: 22; title: Legal Requirements
pagenum: 23; title: Standards and Guidelines
pagenum: 25; label: 2
title: Questioned Practice
pagenum: 37; title: Standards of Practice
pagenum: 40; title: Learning from Questioned Care
pagenum: 43; label: 3
title: Patients and Nonpatients
pagenum: 61; title: Accepting and Terminating Patient Relationships
pagenum: 64; title: Special Patients
pagenum: 67; title: Other Special Patients
pagenum: 68; title: Nonpatient Examinees
pagenum: 68; title: Nonpatients
pagenum: 69; label: 4
title: Medical Communications
pagenum: 101; title: Patient Interviews and Discussions
pagenum: 104; title: Disclosure for Consent
pagenum: 107; title: Documentation of Consent Disclosure and Discussion
pagenum: 107; title: Instructions and Monitoring
pagenum: 112; title: Discussion with Family, Others
pagenum: 113; title: Medical Records
pagenum: 114; label: 5
title: Medical Disclosures
pagenum: 161; title: Confidentiality
pagenum: 164; title: Reports and Releases
pagenum: 166; label: 6
title: Office Support
pagenum: 187; title: Staff Management
pagenum: 190; title: Practice Management
pagenum: 194; label: 7
title: Other Providers
pagenum: 205; title: Consultation and Referral
pagenum: 208; title: Associates and Covering Practice
pagenum: 211; label: 8
title: Vendors and Suppliers
pagenum: 231; title: Pharmaceuticals
pagenum: 234; title: Devices, Equipment, Supplies
pagenum: 237; label: 9
title: Practice Setting
pagenum: 249; title: Hospital Practice
pagenum: 252; title: Managed Care
pagenum: 254; title: Physician Contract Obligations and Patient Necessity
pagenum: 257; title: Physicians as Independent Contractors or Employees
pagenum: 259; title: Concurrent Review of Hospital Stay
pagenum: 261; title: Specialty Referral ("Gatekeeping")
pagenum: 262; title: Integrated Delivery Systems
pagenum: 262; label: 10
title: Claims and Legal Process
pagenum: 275; title: Counsel and Representation
pagenum: 278; title: Problem Events
pagenum: 280; title: Liability Coverage and Defense
pagenum: 282; title: Testimony
pagenum: 285; title: Glossary
pagenum: 297; title: Index
pagenum: 307