Posts Tagged ‘Patient Safety’
Can Hospitals Be Liable for Unsafe Staffing? The Expanding Theory of Institutional Negligence
Short staffing is usually treated as an operational problem. For malpractice attorneys it is becoming an evidentiary one, and in the right case a liability theory.
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Increasing Liability: Hip Fractures in Hospitals and Nursing Homes
More than 14.2 million people worldwide experience a hip fracture each year. Patient falls resulting in hip fractures are considered Sentinel Events by the Joint Commission, posing significant risk for negligence and medical malpractice litigation.
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