Pediatric emergency medicine: Legal briefs

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 801-804

  Selbst, Steven M ^a,b  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lawsuit; Legal briefs; Malpractice; Misdiagnosis

Indexed keywords

BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETIC COMA; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LAW SUIT; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL LIABILITY; NOTE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TESTIS TORSION; TRACHEITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN DEATH; BREATH TESTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHILD; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONSTIPATION; CROUP; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; ENCEPHALITIS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; INFANT; INFARCTION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; KIDNEY CALCULI; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; NEAR DROWNING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRISONERS; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; SINUSITIS; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TRACHEITIS; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 28044450137     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006565-200511000-00021     Document Type: Note

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