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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Malpractice Liability Issues Associated With Caring for Older Persons; Chapter 2. Risk Management, Health Care, and the Geriatric Patient Population; Chapter 3. Medico-Legal Aspects of Hospital Siderail Use; Chapter 4. Negotiated Risk Agreements: Opportunity or Exploitation?; Chapter 5. A Perfect Storm of Unlimited Risks for Florida Nursing Home Providers; Chapter 6. Risk Management and Quality-of-Care Concerns in Long-Term Care; Chapter 7. Nursing Home Litigation: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
  • Chapter 8. Quality of Care and Quality of Life in Nursing Facilities: What's Regulation Got to Do With It?Book Reviews; Bibliography: Medical Errors; Books Received; Index.

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