title: Best practices: Use of an administrative review committee at New Hampshire Hospital to mitigate risk with high-profile patients.
abstract: An increasing number of patients manifesting violent and aggressive behaviors are treated at New Hampshire Hospital. Over the past ten years, the volume of referrals on an involuntary emergency petition has increased 70%. New Hampshire Hospital has successfully initiated its Administrative Review Committee, which confers a risk management process to mitigate potential liability for the hospital and treating clinicians for these high-risk patients. This best practice is viewed as helpful by clinicians and by the hospital's legal counsel. Hospitals treating similar high-risk patients may also benefit from developing a similar committee and risk management process.
authors.affiliation: Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire Hospital, 36 Clinton St., Concord, NH 03301, USA. adenesnera@dhhs.state.nh.us
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Nesnera
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Folks
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009513:New Hampshire; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D016134:Organizational Policy; D012308:Risk Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods