Law, medicine, and the terminally ill: humanizing the approach to risk management.
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.
D003657:Decision Making; D003675:Defensive Medicine; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D005376:Financial Management / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011050:Policy Making; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012308:Risk Management / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012380:Role; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States