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Malpractice
4 Cs of Medical Malpractice Prevention
Types of Defenses
Coverage
Key Terms
100
Explanation and apology
What are Actions that Might Prevent Litigation?
100
Improvement in the patients medical condition
What is the First benefit to showing your patient that you Care?
100
The assertion of Innocence
What is Denial?
100
Contact coverage for potential damages incurred as a result of negligent act
What is liability insurance?
100
The taking of steps to minimize danger, hazard, and liability
What is risk management?
200
To Protect others from harm
What is a Reason for Patient Lawsuits?
200
Asking for conformation that you have been understood
What is Communication?
200
Used by the defendant in a medical professional liability suit, to present factual evidence
What is Affirmative Defense?
200
A type of liability insurance that covers the insured only for those claims made while the policy is in force
What is claims-made insurance?
200
A type of affirmative defense in which the person who comes to the aid of a victim in an emergency is not held liable under certain circumstances
What is an Emergency?
300
Liability Prevention
What is preferable to litigating a malpractice suit?
300
Knowing your professional area well, including your limitations
What is Competence?
300
Contributory Negligence
What is an Affirmative defense?
300
An insurance coverage option whereby insured subscribers contribute to a trust fund to be used paying potential damage awards
What is self-insurance coverage?
300
Period of time established by state law during which a lawsuit may be filed
What is the Statute of Limitations?
400
Caring Communication Competence Charting
What are the 4 Cs of medical Malpractice Prevention?
400
Documenting accurate, completely explained, writing
What is Charting?
400
Technical Defenses
What are defenses used in a lawsuit that are based on legal technicalities?
400
A supplement to a claims-made insurance policy that can be purchased from a new carrier when health care practitioners change carriers
What is prior acts insurance coverage?
400
"The thing has been decided."
What is res judicata?
500
Failure to obtain informed consent
What is a common reason for Malpractice?
500
Following the four Cs of medical malpractice prevention
What is protecting yourself from medical malpractice lawsuit?
500
A legal defense that holds that the defendant is not guilty of a negligent act because the plaintiff knew of and accepted beforehand any risks involved
What is assumption of risk?
500
An insurance coverage option available for health care practitioners when a claims-made policy is discontinued
What is tail coverage?
500
A program of measures taken by health care providers and practitioners to uphold the quality of patient care
What is Quality Assurance?