The Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This is an exceptionally authoritative, comprehensive, multi-specialty handbook of medical risk management. It is the first to focus on medical and surgical malpractice with realistic, practical information on how to avoid litigation, what to do when sued, and what to do in the midst of litigation.

The book opens with explicit guidance on preventive documentation, the disgruntled patient, dealing with requests for records, threats of litigation, and phone calls from lawyers. It continues with detailed chapters by leading experts dealing with malpractice and medicolegal issues in adult primary care, pediatrics, child sexual abuse, general surgery, psychiatry, radiology, anesthesia, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurosurgery and neurology, ophthalmology, urology, orthopedic surgery, orthopedic risk management, plastic surgery, chiropractic, and pharmacy.

The book also covers risk management principles for residents, malpractice issues and concerns for medical students, malpractice risk and risk reduction strategies for advanced practice nurses and physician assistants, medicolegal aspects in pathology, malpractice and the otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon, and malpractice in dermatology. The final sections include information from a plaintiff's attorney, guidance on deposition, pretrial and trial issues, living wills, the National Practitioner Data Bank, basic legal principles, medicolegal problems in Britain, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and blood-borne pathogens. Includes dual doctor-lawyer editorship, glossary, bibliographic references and index.

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Contributors in law, psychiatry, and medicine explain how to handle malpractice suits and how to prevent litigation, for physicians in primary care and in all specialties. They offer guidelines on preventive documentation, dealing with requests for records, threats of litigation, and communication with lawyers, and look at common legal concerns in specialties including pediatrics, general surgery, psychiatry, radiology, and anesthesiology. They also discuss risk management principles and malpractice issues for residents, medical students, and nurses and physician assistants. Information is given from the UK perspective. Sanfilippo teaches in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Robinson works in the private sector. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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