Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, 7 : Liability Issues and Risk Management in Caring for Older Persons.

Health care and human service professionals often experience anxiety about potential adverse legal repercussions for actions taken or not taken in the course of caring for patients or clients. In this volume, professionally distinguished and diverse authors discuss both the real and perceived legal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kapp, Marshall
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Springer Pub. Co., 2001.
Temas:
Medical personnel > Malpractice > United States.
Long-term care facilities > Risk management > United States.
Medical ethics > United States.
Older people > Long-term care > United States.
Personnel médical > Responsabilité professionnelle > États-Unis.
Établissements de soins de longue durée > Gestion du risque > États-Unis.
Éthique médicale > États-Unis.
Personnes âgées > Soins de longue durée > États-Unis.
Long-term care facilities > Risk management
Medical ethics
Medical personnel > Malpractice
Older people > Long-term care
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Health care and human service professionals often experience anxiety about potential adverse legal repercussions for actions taken or not taken in the course of caring for patients or clients. In this volume, professionally distinguished and diverse authors discuss both the real and perceived legal liability context within which health and human service delivery to older persons takes place. The benefits and costs of litigious, legislative, and regulatory interventions on the quality of care and the quality of life for recipients of geriatric services is evaluated. Most important, chapters pre.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (192 pages)
ISBN:9780826115799
0826115799

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