An understanding of the law and the way in which it impacts upon roles, responsibilities and care is a vital component in everyday healthcare. This book explains issues surrounding accountability and the responsibilities of health professionals in a clear and concise style.
Shows the changes in legislation on consent in the medical and healthcare setting. This book explores the law relating to consent, covering both the general principles where the patient is a mentally competent adult, and also the specialist areas of mental incapacity, children and parents. It is suitable for various health professionals.
Presents an overview of the laws relating to the supply, administration and prescribing of medicine. This title has a user-friendly format for easy reference on the job, or a handy revision aid. It contains case studies throughout to demonstrate application of theory into practice.
Suitable for occupational therapists, this title offers an understanding of the law relating to their practice. This text includes chapters on main client groups and presents the relevant specialist law. It also provides an introduction to the complex organisational and legal developments which impact the work of the occupational therapist.
Explores the law relating to patient confidentiality and reflects the legislation in the field. This text is suitable for health professionals who care for the patient, and for patient service managers, patient groups, relatives and those who are interested in understanding the law relating to patient confidentiality.
The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) offers federal matching funds for states and territories to provide health insurance to uninsured, low-income children in families whose annual incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid. Unlike Medicaid, which operates as an individual entitlement, SCHIP operates as a capped grant program.
Combines the exciting, suspenseful, and sometimes zany plot of a murder in a clinical trial with interactivity and teaching of FDA regulations. This title is suitable for those conducting clinical trials or informed consent outside of a clinical trial.
Part of the "Churchill Pocketbook" series, this volume aims to give practical advice to the clinician on those occasions where there is a potential medicolegal issue. Presenting the information in an accessible style, it is useful in Accident and Emergency Departments and General Practitioner surgeries.
Qualified pharmacists have to keep abreast of changes in the law which affect their daily practice. This book is recognized as an accessible standard text for students, and as a practical reference source for practising pharmacists and healthcare managers.
Through close examination of legal, historical, and medical sources, this volume sheds light on the evolution of US law as it bears on bio-ethical issues, advances in medical technology, and the changing role of medicine in the American courtroom during the last 150 years.
Communication skills are an important part of the medical curriculum. This book gives didactic guidance on the appropriate style and content of communication for medical students and F1 doctors in those common situations they are likely to encounter both on the ward and in OSCE examinations.
Examines developments that include the Human Tissue Act 2004, which regulates the use of human material for research and transplantation purposes; the Mental Capacity Act 2005, which regulates treatment concerning patients lacking mental capacity; developments in patient safety and risk management; and the NHS patient complaints system.
This handbook explains the relationship between the doctor and the law and the general principles of giving evidence, enabling the doctor to be less vulnerable than before. The authors explore the pitfalls of giving evidence and examine the ethical and moral areas involved in individual cases.
Explains how to calculate life expectancy, and how to avoid common mistakes and misunderstandings. This book features basic concepts illustrated with data from studies involving conditions including alcoholism, cerebral palsy, colon cancer, and diabetes. It is intended for readers who would like to learn more about this area of medicine.
Focuses on the key legal issues including medical documentation, which reduce risk and liability when handled correctly. This book contains chapters on difficult patients and special issues for emergency physicians. The case-based format demonstrates clinical relevance, and useful examples are drawn from office, hospital and community settings.
Medical law and ethics are frequently referred to in conjunction, and appear together in many textbooks. But do they combine to form a cohesive unit, and do they benefit each other? This book examines this relationship, and how the law sees medical ethics. It considers whether medical ethics functions in the way that the law thinks that it does.
Suitable for students of medicine, dentistry, radiography, physiotherapy, psychiatry or nursing, as well as legal practitioners advising clients, this title brings together the applicable law in an easy-to-read style and provides day-in day-out guidance for clinical practitioners, students and legal practitioners.
Aimed at lawyers rather than clinicians, this is a consideration of the medical risks associated with current practice for a number of speciality fields. Each chapter is written by an expert in an area of medicine or surgery who has experience of advising lawyers and the courts.
Provides a basic introduction to the legal issues faced in health care. This work offers coverage of the legal issues to be found in daily medical practice, including confidentiality, research, consent, negligence, organ donation and human rights, as well as more contentious issues such as tissue retention and withholding/withdrawing treatment.
Medicaid is a state administered program and each state sets its own guidelines regarding eligibility and services. Many groups of people are covered by Medicaid. Even within these groups, though, certain requirements must be met. This book discusses these factors.