Medicolegal issues in pediatrics:
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Corporate Author: American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Medical Liability and Risk Management (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Elk Grove Village, IL American Academy of Pediatrics 2012
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record. - Rev. ed. of: Medical liability for pediatricians / author, Committee on Medical Liability, American Academy of Pediatrics. 6th ed. c2004
Includes bibliographical references and index
Overview of medical liability -- Anatomy of a medical malpractice lawsuit and the defendant pediatrician -- Professional liability insurance -- Risk management -- Telephone and on-call care -- Legal issues relating to e-mail, web sites, and telemedicine -- Liability for vaccine adminstration -- Newborn care -- Adolescent health care -- Pediatric emergency medicine -- Documenting pediatric care -- Medical liability experences of pediatricians -- Coping with malpractice litigation stress -- Testifying as a expert witness -- Resolving malpractice disputes without litigation: alternative dispute resolution -- Pediatric patient safety -- Medical licensure, specialty boards, and practitioner data banks -- Career transitions: residency through retirement -- Volunteer activities -- Medical liability and child abuse -- Health care fraud, waste, and abuse
Medicolegal Issues in Pediatrics, offers a wide range of medicolegal topics that affect the practice of pediatrics from residency through retirement. It provides pediatricians with detailed information on common pediatric malpractice claims and specific risk management strategies to reduce the threat of being sued and make it easier to defend a claim
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 283 p.)
ISBN:9781461948001
1461948002
9781581105841
1581105843

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