Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration
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The Ninth Edition of this book continues to provide students with a strong foundation in health care law and an overview of practical ways to improve the quality and safe delivery of healthcare. Thomas Christoffel This is the fifth edition of a review of the leading legal issues relevant to health care delivery and health care administration. The authors' stated purpose is to arm the health care professional with a working knowledge of health law. This is a worthy objective in principle; however, it is a quite difficult objective to achieve, for without some general understanding of law and the operation of the legal system to provide context, isolated legal information can be as confusing as helpful. The authors overcome this difficulty only to a quite limited extent. More to the point, however, is the question of how the reader is to use this book (i.e., read it cover to cover, consult it as a reference, etc.). The answer is not at all clear, which may simply be a result of the difficulty of the objective. This is not the type of book that requires, or has, illustrations. The references are not useful. The table of contents and the index are satisfactory, but the organization of the book itself is sometimes confusing (e.g., the leading refusal-of-treatment case is discussed under defining death rather than under refusal of treatment). The overall appearance of the book is satisfactory. This book would have been significantly improved if the authors had devoted more attention to (1) determining what their audience needed to understand and (2) how to provide that understanding. Instead, the book comes closer to being a simple cataloging (or, at best, a pedestrian review) of miscellaneous health law topics. It lacks the discrimination and guidance for the reader that could have made it more useful.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Historical Perspective1Ch. 2Introduction to Law13Ch. 3Tort Law31Ch. 4Criminal Aspects of Health Care63Ch. 5Contracts and Antitrust85Ch. 6Civil Procedure and Trial Practice107Ch. 7Corporate Liability143Ch. 8Medical Staff167Ch. 9Nursing and the Law209Ch. 10Liability by Departments and Health Care Professionals247Ch. 11Information Management and Health Care Records287Ch. 12Patient Consent313Ch. 13Legal Reporting Requirements335Ch. 14Issues of Procreation345Ch. 15Patient Rights and Responsibilities365Ch. 16Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome375Ch. 17Health Care Ethics387Ch. 18Malpractice Insurance423Ch. 19Labor Relations433Ch. 20Employment, Discipline, and Discharge449Ch. 21Managed Care and Organizational Restructuring465Ch. 22Tort Reform and Reducing the Risk of Malpractice485Ch. 23Patient Safety and Zero Tolerance497Ch. 24Worldwide Search515Ch. 25Journey to Excellence521Glossary527Index535
