Medicolegal rounds: Medicolegal issues and alleged breaches of standards of medical care in a patient motor vehicle accident allegedly related to chronic opioid analgesic therapy

Journal of Opioid Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-20

  Fishbain, David A ^a,b,c   Lewis, John E ^a   Cole, Brandly ^b   Rosomoff, Renné Steele ^b   Rosomoff, Hubert L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Rosomoff Pain Center   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breaches of standards; Chronic opioid analgesic therapy; Chronic pain; Driving; Informed consent; Intractable pain; Methadone; Motor vehicle accidents; Opioids; Standards of medical care

Indexed keywords

HYDROCODONE; METHADONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; TIZANIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXPERT WITNESS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; PHYSICIAN; STANDARD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; CAR DRIVING; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LEGAL ASPECT; PAIN; PAIN CLINIC; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MALE; MALPRACTICE; METHADONE; PAIN; PAIN CLINICS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 34047129557     PISSN: 15517489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5055/jom.2007.0034     Document Type: Article

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