BookJ. Stuart Showalter.
Summary: "The Law of Healthcare Administration teaches readers to think through these and other questions of law. Wide-ranging and skillfully written, author Stuart Showalter surveys the pressing issues uncovered during of two centuries of US policy, court decisions, and regulation. Unlike other textbooks on healthcare law, this book emphasizes a practical understanding of legal concepts of interest to students and educators in health administration, public health, nursing, allied health, and related programs. It does so in plain, accessible language, featuring real-life judicial decisions"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
A brief history of medicine
Access to healthcare : rights and responsibilities
The organization and management of a corporate healthcare institution
Human resources law
Contracts and intentional torts
Negligence
Liability of the healthcare institution
Medical staff privileges and peer review
Health information management
Emergency care
Consent for treatment and withholding consent
Taxation of healthcare institutions
Competition and Antitrust Law
Issues of reproduction and birth
Fraud laws and corporate compliance.
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