Medicolegal pitfalls of prescribing hormone replacement therapy.
The prescribing of hormone replacement therapy can give rise to clinical negligence, just like any other area of medical practice -- keeping up to date, ensuring patients are properly informed and so able to consent, and avoiding prescribing pitfalls are the keys to successful risk management. Ultimately, good practice is defensible practice.
Panting
Gerard
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Medical Protection Society, London, UK. gerard.panting@mps.org.uk
D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012308:Risk Management; D006113:United Kingdom