Law, medicine, and the terminally ill: Humanizing the approach to risk management
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Health Care Management Review
- Vol. 12 (2) , 37-42
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004010-198701220-00006
Abstract
In advising health care providers about care of the terminally ill in hospitals, risk managers generally take a legally conservative, narrow, risk avoidance approach. This orientation is generally unnecessary legally, since the legal risks in this context are exaggerated, and often lead to suboptimum medical treatment. A more humanistic approach to risk management should be taken where the terminally ill are involved.Keywords
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