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  • Prevention of Patient Falls through Perceived Control and other Techniques

  • Aviva Halpert, James P. Connors
  • Journal:
    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 14 / Issue 1 / February 1986
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 April 2021, pp. 20-24
    Print publication:
    February 1986

  • Every year thousands of patients suffer injury while attempting to make use of bathroom facilities. In addition to the suffering and protracted inpatient care that these incidents cause, hospitals have been faced with staggering costs in the form of increased insurance premiums arising directly out of an increased number of lawsuits. This problem has reached a proportion such that it clearly deserves careful and indepth industry study.

    This article, while far from a comprehensive study, will attempt to draw certain conclusions and perhaps dispel certain myths based upon a study of 181 patient falls at a 200+-bed community hospital in the Northeastern United States.

    In the not too distant past, hospitals could not generally be held legally responsible for failure to raise bedrails absent specific medical direction. Such was the case because few, if any, hospitals had guidelines or procedures for the placement of bedrails in the absence of a physician's order.

  • The Psychiatrist–Patient Privilege and Third-Party Payers: Commonwealth v. Kobrin

  • Richard G. Taranto
  • Journal:
    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 14 / Issue 1 / February 1986
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 April 2021, pp. 25-29
    Print publication:
    February 1986

  • Virtually every state gives psychiatrists’ patients a broad statutory privilege to prevent the disclosure in legal proceedings of information about their diagnosis and treatment. Although the precise scope of the privilege varies from state to state, and a variety of exceptions are widely recognized, the contents of therapy sessions—and hence of psychiatrists’ written records of therapy sessions—are ordinarily protected by the privilege. Patients thus are gmerally entitled to prevent the courts and other government authorities from using their coercive evidencr-gathering powers to obtain psychiatric records or testimony about therapy. In conjunction with psychiatrists’ ethical and legal duties of confidentiality toward their patients outside legal proceedings, the privilege renders the privacy of the psychiatric relationship to a large degree sacrosanct.

    The cloak of secrecy around the psychiatrist-patient relationship, however, must inevitably be lifted to some extent when third parties pay for psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Any third-party payer, be it a private insurer or a government agency (such as Medicaid or Medicare), must be able to obtain enough information about psychiatric services to determine the propriety of claims for payment for those services.

  • Death at a New York Hospital

  • Engelbert L. Schucking
  • Journal:
    Law, Medicine and Health Care / Volume 13 / Issue 6 / December 1985
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 April 2021, pp. 261-268
    Print publication:
    December 1985
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