Protecting the most vulnerable: Litigation from pediatric otolaryngologic procedures and conditions

Laryngoscope

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2161-2166

  Rose, Christopher ^a   Svider, Peter F ^a   Sheyn, Anthony ^a   Meadows, Lila N ^b   Eloy, Jean Anderson ^c,d   Coticchia, James ^a   Folbe, Adam J ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

liability; litigation; medical malpractice; negligence; Pediatric otolaryngology

Indexed keywords

ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; ANESTHESIST; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHOLESTEATOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EAR RECONSTRUCTION; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; EPIGLOTTITIS; EPISTAXIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; FRACTURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; ILATERAL MYRINGOTOMY; INTUBATION; LARYNX PAPILLOMATOSIS; LAW SUIT; LEGAL DATABASE; MALE; MAXILLA RESECTION; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE EAR SURGERY; MYRINGOTOMY; NEGLIGENCE; OTITIS MEDIA; OTOLARYNGOLOGIC PROCEDURE; OTOLARYNGOLOGIST; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRICIAN; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUSITIS; STRIDOR; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; THYROGLOSSAL DUCT CYST; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEITIS; TRACHEOTOMY;

LIABILITY; LITIGATION; MEDICAL MALPRACTICE; NEGLIGENCE; PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALPRACTICE; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PEDIATRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84906696334     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24663     Document Type: Article

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