Chapter 8

Front 1

What are the purposes of the healthcare organizations bylaws?

Back 1

The set forth the responsibilities of the medical staff.

Front 2

Who is liable when the medical staff members credentials are not screened properly?

Back 2

The Health Care organization can be liable for injuries to patients.

Front 3

What are some of the stages in screening and appointment process?

Back 3

The application, applicants physical and mental status, references, national practitioner data bank, a thorough interview, approval by the governing body.

Front 4

Who decided which procedures a physician can perform?

Back 4

Medical staff

Front 5

Determining which procedures of Physician can perform is known as?

Back 5

Delineation of privileges-based on the set criteria for credentials required

Front 6

What must a Physician do to commence a court action for issues such as initial denial of medical staff privileges?

Back 6

The Physician must first exhaust all remedies in the hospital's bylaws.

Front 7

Physician monitoring is most effectively practice through?

Back 7

Peer review

Front 8

The governing body of the hospital has a duty to take action against a Physician whose actions pose...?

Back 8

An unreasonable risk of harm to a patient.

Front 9

A Physician is not liable for exercising his best judgments if....

Back 9

A course of treatment is supported by medical experts.

Front 10

A Physician is at risk if he or she uses....

Back 10

An unprecedented procedure that results in harm.

Front 11

A variety of malpractice issues include the following...

Back 11

Failure to respond to emergency, delaying treatment, performing inadequate examinations, not ordering diagnostic tests, not reviewing test results, not obtaining a second opinion, not referring, practicing outside field of competence, misdiagnosis, not reading nurses notes, the medication errors, not getting consent, not performing procedure, not maintaining adequate airway, aggravation of preexisting condition, lack of documentation, premature discharge, failure to follow up, and abandonment.

Front 12

Mental health professionals have a duty to what?

Back 12

duty to warn

Front 13

The therapist must warn The third party If the patient poses What?

Back 13

Poses a serious harm to the third party.

Front 14

In a malpractice case, the standard of care applied will be that pertaining to the specialty in which the position is treating, regardless of what?

Back 14

Regardless of whether or not the Physician is credentialed in that specialty.

Front 15

Medical staff privileges-two limitations on requested privileges

Back 15

Must be accordance with bylaws, appeal procedures must be followed

Front 16

The hospital has a duty to ensure competency

Back 16

Utah has a statute barring claims for negligent credentialing

Front 17

Three ways Physicians are supervised and monitored

Back 17

Peer review, board responsibility to recognize incompetence, suspension of privileges

Front 18

When is there sufficient grounds to deny Physicians privileges?

Back 18

When a Physician has an inability to work with others, or failure to meet ethical standards

Front 19

Misdiagnosing accident victim number one

Back 19

Did the Physician commit malpractice by failing to ensure correct diagnosis of the patient's skull? Yes!

Front 20

Physician's on call in emergency department Must respond to emergencies quickly

Back 20

Yes

Front 21

Failure to respond is grounds for negligence should of patients suffer injury as a result of....

Back 21

a physicians failure to respond.

Front 22

Blackmon vs. Langley established what?

Back 22

The Physician may be liable for failing to respond promptly if it can be established that such an action caused a patient's death

Front 23

Felipe vs. Bishop Clarkson memorial hospital established what?

Back 23

Failure to obtain an adequate family history violates a standard of care owed to the patient.

Front 24

What are the two schools of thought regarding choice of treatment?

Back 24

Physician is not liable if treatment is respected by medical experts, unprecedented procedures are negligent even though due care was followed.

Front 25

A plaintiff who claims of Physician failed to order proper diagnostics must show what?

Back 25

A diagnostic test the standard practice, Physician failed to use the test, patient suffered injury as a result.

Front 26

Timely diagnosis of the patient's condition is as important as that need to what?

Back 26

The need to accurately diagnose a patient's injury or disease.

Front 27

Physicians must seek second opinions when required

Back 27

Good witch vs. Sinai Hospital-continual failure to comply with second opinion agreements

Front 28

The Physician has a duty to refer his or her patient.

Back 28

Doan vs. Griffith-plaintiff my show that the Physician deviated from the standard of care... And resulted in injury

Front 29

What is the standard of care required in a malpractice case?

Back 29

Standard of care is that of the specialty in which a Physician is treating and has nothing to do whether or not the Physician was credentials in that specialty.

Front 30

Todd vs. Saul's-nursing notes

Back 30

the Physician can reach his or her duty of care by failing to repair some notes.

Front 31

Example of failure to use critical information

Back 31

Patient allergic to latex has a latex catheter inserted leading to chronic bladder disorder

Front 32

Examples of medication errors

Back 32

Wrong dosage, abuse in prescribing medications, wrongful supply of medications

Front 33

What is failure to provide informed consent?

Back 33

Physicians must inform their patients of the known benefits, risks, and alternatives

Front 34

Examples of malpractice surgery

Back 34

Wrong procedure, correct procedure at wrong site, fraudulent procedure, foreign objects left in patient

Front 35

Ward v. Epting - adequate airway

Back 35

Anesthesiologist failed to conform to the standard of care

Front 36

Anne Arundel Med. Ctr. v Condon - misdiagnosis of breast cancer

Back 36

Pathologist's failure to interpret invasive carcinoma as a departure from standard of care

Front 37

Aggravation of a preexisting condition

Back 37

If the original injury is aggravated, liability will be imposed only for the aggravation, rather than for both the original injury and it's aggravation.

Front 38

Could jury consider failure to document as negligence?

Back 38

Yes

Front 39

Elements necessary to recover damages in abandonment

Back 39

Medical Care and reasonably discontinued, discontinued against patience will, for site-failure could result in patient injury, actual harm was suffered