TY - CHAP
T1 - Hospital risk management and the U.S. legal system
T2 - An introduction to U.S. medical malpractice tort law
AU - Stimson, C. J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - In the US hospital setting, risk management focuses on mitigating hospital exposure to loss from legal liability, including medical malpractice tort law claims. This chapter provides perspective on three critical components of the US medical malpractice tort law: process, substance, and justifi cation. Framed in this way, the discussion that follows illuminates both the practice and the policy that forms the foundation of US medical malpractice tort law.
AB - In the US hospital setting, risk management focuses on mitigating hospital exposure to loss from legal liability, including medical malpractice tort law claims. This chapter provides perspective on three critical components of the US medical malpractice tort law: process, substance, and justifi cation. Framed in this way, the discussion that follows illuminates both the practice and the policy that forms the foundation of US medical malpractice tort law.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-47407-5_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-47407-5_7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85017645654
SN - 9783662474068
SP - 69
EP - 76
BT - Risk Management in Medicine
PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ER -