Medical negligence : key cases and application of legislation / Rajkumar Cheluvappa and Selwyn Selvendran.
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Elsevier B.V., 2020.
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199450
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Libel and slande -- Australia.
Negligence -- Australia.
Torts -- Australia.
Summary:
The most common tort worldwide is negligence. The first aim of the paper is to educate the Australian nursing community about medicolegal issues, statutes, important cases, legal applications, and negligence statistics pertaining to clinical practice. The second aim is to determine whether medicolegal negligence claim-numbers are commensurate with recorded statistics on adverse events. The third aim is to determine and discuss preventative approaches to minimise culpability.
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1 online resource (pages 205-211) : digital, PDF