Legal issues in home care: Current trends, risk-reduction strategies, and opportunities for improvement

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-100

  Dailey, Maureen ^a   Newfield, James ^b  

^a Clinical Operations at Vista Chronic Care Solutions

^b Health Care Law Firm of Rosenblum and Tannenbaum

Author keywords

Disease management; Evidence based practice; National practitioner data base; Nursing malpractice; Risk assessment tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549021643     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084822304270025     Document Type: Article

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