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Liability issues and risk management in caring for older persons / Marshall B. Kapp, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ethics, law, and aging review ; v. 7.
- Ethics, law, and aging review ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical personnel--Malpractice--United States.
- Medical personnel.
- Long-term care facilities--Risk management--United States.
- Long-term care facilities.
- Medical ethics--United States.
- Medical ethics.
- Older people--Long-term care--United States.
- Older people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical refernces and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-80646-3
- 9786611806460
- 0-8261-1579-9
- OCLC:
- 437109871
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