[Assessment of psychological consequences of trauma].
After accidents psychological consequences are often asserted. This may be due to the traumatic experience itself, the experience of severe physical injury or to the experience of a traumatic hospital treatment. The pivotal point of the medicolegal assessment is the evidence of primary mental or physical damage that has to be documented beyond a reasonable doubt in all areas of law. A medicolegal assessment in five steps is proposed.
Universitätsklinik Tübingen, Tübingen, Deutschland.
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D000059:Accidents / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*