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11 - Medicolegal Risk Management

from Section 3 - Special Topics: Medicolegal Considerations and Specific Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2021

Christine Yu Moutier ,
Anthony R. Pisani  and
Stephen M. Stahl
Christine Yu Moutier
Affiliation:
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Anthony R. Pisani
Affiliation:
University of Rochester Medical Center, New York
Stephen M. Stahl
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

Healthcare professionals manage medicolegal risk related to many different clinical issues and outcomes. Critical to risk management is an awareness of the duties we have as providers to our patients, and the steps that are considered standard practice for any particular clinical issue by similar health professionals. Included below are several considerations related to risk management and suicide related outcomes

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Suicide Prevention
Stahl's Handbooks
 , pp. 189 - 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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