عنوان

Hospital law

0387186425

3540186425

9780387186429

9783540186427

b557547

Hospital law

[Book]

A. Carmi, S. Schneider (eds.) ; with contributions by J. Adler [and others].

Berlin ; New York

Springer-Verlag

©1988.

ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Medicolegal library, 7.

I Introduction.- Hospital Laws, Procedures, and Ethics in a Contrastive World.- Hospital Law - New Trends (A. Carmi).- II Responsibility.- Liability of Hospitals to Patients.- Medicolegal Aspects of Hospital Functioning.- Legal and Organizational Control of an Ambulatory Health and Social Service Centre.- Preventing Patient Falls: A New Perspective.- Legal Aspects of Unauthorized Medical Intervention by Paramedical Personnel.- Legal Problems Encountered by Emergency Medical Personnel in a Prehospital Setting.- Confidentiality of Substance Abuse Records and Mental Health Records in the United States of America.- Teaching Nursing Law in Nursing Schools.- III Technology and Law.- The Role of Technology in Hospitals.- Advanced Medical Technology and the Deinstitutionalized Handicapped.- The Computer as a Risk-Management Tool in the Hospital.- IV The Patient.- Responsibility for One's Own Illness.- Patient's Informed Consent in Austria.- Overview of American Law on Informed Consent: Physician's Duty to Disclose.- Israeli Law on Informed Consent.- Handling of Complaints in Health Systems in the USA, Canada, England, and Israel.- Evaluation Committees.- Preventive Incentives Through Graded Health Insurance Mechanisms.- Medical Records: Property of the Patient.- V Ethics.- Development of Institutional Ethics Committees in American Hospitals.- Legal Aspects of Biomedical Ethical Issues Confronting Hospitals.- Do Not Resuscitate (DNR): How to Decide, Who Should Decide, and Why?.- VI Miscellaneous.- Artificial Insemination - Legal and Social Aspects.- Critical Care Medicine and Organ Transplantation.- Cerebral Death: Human Life or Not?.- Extrarenal Transplants: The Ohio Experience.- Application of Unorthodox Treatment Methods to the Terminally I11 - The Ma'ayan Affair.- A Proposal for a Network of Psychiatric Treatment Services: A Unitization Model.- Medical Evidence in the Israeli Labor Courts: Court-Appointed Expert Medical Advisors.

Hospitals -- Law and legislation.

Legislation, Hospital.

Tort liability of hospitals.

A. Carmi, S. Schneider (eds.) ; with contributions by J. Adler [and others].

Amnon Carmi

J Adler

S Schneider

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