Legal issues in the practice of critical care medicine: A practical approach

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Szalados, James E ^a,b,c  

^a Orthopaedic Associates of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Brown and Tarantino   (United States)

Author keywords

Do not resuscitate; Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act; False Claims Act; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; Informed consent; Informed refusal; Intensive care unit; Medical malpractice; Peer review; Research ethics

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LAW SUIT; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LIABILITY; NEGLIGENCE; PATIENT CARE; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONFIDENTIALITY; CREDENTIALING; CRITICAL CARE; DOCUMENTATION; HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERRORS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846526731     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000252921.55611.36     Document Type: Review

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