Medical malpractice and corticosteroid use

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-15

  Nash, John J ^a,b   Nash, Amanda G ^c   Leach, Matthew E ^a   Poetker, David M ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren Attorneys at Law   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Lawsuit; Legal; Malpractice; Prednisone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACNE; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ALLERGY; ALOPECIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANXIETY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BACKACHE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN TUMOR; BURSITIS; CATARACT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CORNEA ULCER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; DERMATITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIPLOPIA; DIVERTICULOSIS; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; ECZEMA; EMBOLISM; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTERITIS; EPICONDYLITIS; EYE PAIN; EYELID DISEASE; FRACTURE; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; IRRITABILITY; JURISPRUDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KNEE PAIN; LAW SUIT; LEG PAIN; LIPOATROPHY; LIPODYSTROPHY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENINGITIS; MOOD CHANGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE STRAIN; MYOPATHY; NECK PAIN; NEGLIGENCE; OPTIC NEURITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PAIN; PANCREATITIS; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PERICARDITIS; POLYMYOSITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; PSORIASIS; PSYCHOSIS; RASH; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCAR FORMATION; SEPTICEMIA; SHOULDER PAIN; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STRESS FRACTURE; STRIA; STROKE; SUICIDE; SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; THYROIDITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREMOR; ULCER PERFORATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; URTICARIA; UVEITIS; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOCAL CORD DISORDER; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; WRONGFUL DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFORMED CONSENT; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 79959585258     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599810390470     Document Type: Article

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