A practitioner's guide to hospital liability /
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Chicago, Ill. :
Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Understanding the hospital structures and actors
- Defining the standard of hospital care
- Assault and suicide claims
- Claims of civil battery and failure of informed consent
- Negligent failure to monitor patients' condition
- Physical harm on hospital premises
- Liability for infection issues
- Harms associated with equipment failure
- Drug-dispensing errors
- Hospital liability for medical errors
- Special nutritional issues
- Medical device problems
- Laboratory errors affectng patients
- Workplace safety and hospital liability
- Clinical research negligence issues
- Care obligations under EMTALA
- Death, dying, and end of life issues
- Reporting of adverse events
- State regulatory issues
- Federal standards of hospital care
- Role of the joint commission
- Fires and building-related accidents
- Personnel-related cases
- Plaintiff's use of expert testimony
- Health insurance carriers
- Independence and autonomy of physicians
- Credentialing of physicians
- Liability of contractors serving in hospitals
- Conclusion