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In this issue of
Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. Michael B. Weinstock and Gita Pensa bring their considerable expertise to the topic of
Risk Management in Emergency Medicine. Top experts discuss documentation; legal risk to the resident in training; balancing the legal risk to the clinician and the medical health of the patient; pediatric high-risk conditions; medical malpractice stress syndrome; and more.
- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including specific legal risks of chest pain, headache, abdominal pain, and neurologic; collaboration of physicians and PAs and NPs; lessons from a medical malpractice defense attorney; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on risk management in emergency medicine, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Table des matières
Medical Malpractice Stress Syndrome
Balancing the Legal Risk to the Clinician with the Medical Interests of the Patient
Medical Malpractice Epidemiology: Adults and Pediatrics
Medicolegally Protective Documentation in Emergency Medicine
Pediatric High-Risk Conditions
Chest Pain-Specific Legal Risk
Misdiagnosis of Acute Headache: Mitigating Medico-legal Risks
Neurologic Specific Risk: Strokes, Lytics, and Litigation
Abdominal Pain-Specific Legal Risk
Legal Risk to the Emergency Medicine Resident in Training and Attending Supervisors
Navigating Supervision of Advanced Practice Providers
Understanding Against Medical Advice, Informed Consent, and Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Medical Malpractice Risk
Reflections from a Medical Malpractice Defense Attorney: Insights on Avoiding Claims and Lawsuits
