title: Professional liability loss control in the vertically integrated healthcare system: managing from a helicopter.
abstract: As the prevalence of integrated healthcare organizations increases, the opportunities and threats confronting the risk manager increase as well. It is important that risk managers recognize not only the type of organizational configuration in which they work, but also the proper loss prevention techniques applicable to that system.
authors.affiliation: Vencor Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Boswell
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012308:Risk Management / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States