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Medical liability for pediatricians / author Committee on Medical Liability, American Academy of Pediatrics ; editors Jan Ellen Berger, Charles H. Deitschel.
LIBRA KF2910.P423 M43 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pediatricians--Malpractice--United States.
- Pediatrics--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Pediatricians--Malpractice.
- United States.
- Insurance, Liability--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Malpractice--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Liability, Legal.
- Medical Subjects:
- Pediatrics--legislation & jurisprudence.
- United States.
- Insurance, Liability--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Malpractice--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Liability, Legal.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Elk Grove Village, IL : American Academy of Pediatrics, 2003.
- Summary:
- Thoroughly updated and greatly expanded, Medical Liability for Pediatricians provides up-to-date, practice-oriented coverage of the steps to take to recognize and reduce legal risk associated with patient care. Prepared by the AAP Committee on Medical Liability, this new edition provides proven strategies, techniques, policies, and procedures in areas ranging from professional liability insurance to managed care; emergency, newborn, and adolescent care to electronic medicine; telephone care to testifying as a medical expert witness; and documentation to dispute resolution.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Overview of Medical Liability 1
- Chapter 2 Professional Liability Insurance 11
- Chapter 3 Risk Management 27
- Chapter 4 Telephone Care 51
- Chapter 5 Liability of E-mail, Web Sites, and Telemedicine 63
- Chapter 6 Managed Care Liability 73
- Chapter 7 Liability for Vaccine Administration 91
- Chapter 8 Newborn Care 103
- Chapter 9 Adolescent Health Care 119
- Chapter 10 Pediatric Emergency Medicine 131
- Chapter 11 Documenting Pediatric Care 143
- Chapter 12 Medical Liability Experiences 159
- Chapter 13 Defendant Pediatrician 171
- Chapter 14 Coping With Malpractice Litigation Stress 187
- Chapter 15 Testifying as a Medical Expert Witness 193
- Chapter 16 Resolving Malpractice Disputes Without Litigation: Alternative Dispute Resolution 203
- Chapter 17 Pediatric Patient Safety 209
- Chapter 18 Medical Licensure, Specialty Boards, and Practitioner Data Banks 219
- Chapter 19 Career Transitions
- Residency Through Retirement 231
- Chapter 20 Volunteer Activities 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1581101228
- OCLC:
- 52876630
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