COVID-19 and medical litigation: More than just the obvious.
Australia
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections
/ therapy
Critical Pathways
/ legislation & jurisprudence
Delivery of Health Care
/ legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Malpractice
/ legislation & jurisprudence
Pandemics
/ legislation & jurisprudence
Pneumonia, Viral
/ therapy
Standard of Care
/ legislation & jurisprudence
COVID
medicolegal
negligence
Journal
Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
ISSN: 1742-6723
Titre abrégé: Emerg Med Australas
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 101199824
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
Historique:
received:
04
05
2020
accepted:
05
05
2020
pubmed:
10
5
2020
medline:
6
8
2020
entrez:
10
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
COVID-19 has massively changed the health landscape around the world. Wide-ranging changes to healthcare delivery have occurred, especially in hospitals and EDs. Health services have made local decisions about care pathways, in some cases deviating from what would, until recently, have been considered widely accepted care. These changes bring with them new medicolegal risk for clinicians. In Australia, civil liability Acts provide protection for professionals when the criterion of having undertaken 'competent' practice that would be 'widely accepted' 'in the circumstances' is met. There is doubt how courts, and the medical experts who advise them, will evaluate clinical care provided during the pandemic when health services have developed local care pathways and there is no nationally accepted standard.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32386246
doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13548
pmc: PMC7272927
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
703-705Informations de copyright
© 2020 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
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