Principles of Liability for Athletic Trainers: Managing Sport-Related Concussion

Journal of Athletic Training

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 316-321

  Osborne, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Breach; Causation; Damage; Duty; Negligence; Reasonable person standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041537022     PISSN: 10626050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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