Awareness: practice, standards, and the law

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 369-383

  Kent, Christopher D ^a   Domino, Karen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

awake paralysis; awareness; closed claims; malpractice; medicolegal liability

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINLAND; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INJURY; JURISPRUDENCE; LAW; LAW SUIT; MALPRACTICE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALPRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547573974     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2007.04.007     Document Type: Review

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