Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 7: Liability Issues and Risk Management in Caring for Older Persons / Edition 1

by Marshall B. Kapp JD, MPH

Overview

Health care and human service professionals often experience anxiety about potential adverse legal repercussions for actions taken or not taken in the course of caring for patients or clients.

In this volume, professionally distinguished and diverse authors discuss both the real and perceived legal liability context within which health and human service delivery to older persons takes place. The benefits and costs of litigious, legislative, and regulatory interventions on the quality of care and the quality of life for recipients of geriatric services is evaluated. Most important, chapters present suggestions for ways to effectively reduce or manage legal risks and anxieties while improving patient care. This volume fills a gap in the literature by providing careful and accurate analysis of legal issues rarely translated into practical and useful advice for health care and human service professionals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826114570
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/24/2001
Series:	Ethics, Law, and Aging Review , #7
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM, is a faculty member in the School of Medicine at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, where he is the Frederick A. White Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Community Health and Psychiatry and Director of the WSU Office of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. He holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Dayton School of Law.

Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM, is a faculty member in the School of Medicine at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, where he is the Frederick A. White Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Community Health and Psychiatry and Director of the WSU Office of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. He holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Dayton School of Law.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
• Malpractice Liability Issues Associated With Caring for Older Persons, Ronald W. Scott
• Risk Management, Health Care, and the Geriatric Patient Population, Michael J. Bass
• Medico-Legal Aspects of Hospital Siderail Use, Elizabeth A. Capezuti and Julie A. Braun
• Negotiated Risk Agreements: Opportunity or Exploitation?, Keren Brown Wilson, Kenneth L. Burgess, and Mauro Hernandez
• A Perfect Storm of Unlimited Risks for Florida Nursing Home Providers, LuMarie Polvka-West, Howard Tuch, and Karen Goldsmith
• Risk Management and Quality-of-Care Concerns in Long-Term Care, Andrew Weinberg
• Nursing Home Litigation: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, Lawrence A. Frolik
• Quality of Care and Quality of Life in Nursing Facilities: What’s Regulation Got to Do With It?, Marshall B. Kapp
Book Reviews
Bibliography: Medical Errors
Books Received
Index