Medical and healthcare law

With more people living longer lives, there is increased importance in the health care industry on improving services for the elderly.

Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide supplies a clear understanding of the interrelationships between Big Data, the new business insights it reveals, and the laws, regulations, and contracting practices that impact the use of the insights and the data.

Fundamentals of Medical Practice Investigation fills an important gap in the resources for criminal investigators.

This book explores the response of forensic psychiatry and psychology to changes over the last several decades.

Some have estimated that healthcare fraud in the United States results in losses of approximately $80 billion a year.

A 30-year-old Polish lady is admitted in labour.

This practical guide helps student and practising nurses to understand the impact of their care when working with older people.

This practical guide helps student and practising nurses to understand the impact of their care when working with older people.

Life care planning is an advanced collaborative case management specialty practice focused on assessing, evaluating, coordinating, consulting, planning for, and monitoring necessary services for individuals with complex medical care needs over their lifetime.

Life care planning is an advanced collaborative case management specialty practice focused on assessing, evaluating, coordinating, consulting, planning for, and monitoring necessary services for individuals with complex medical care needs over their lifetime.

Based on the author's more than 35 years of experience as a successful expert witness, this revised and expanded edition of Expert Witnessing and Scientific Testimony: A Guidebook demonstrates how to properly present scientific, criminal, and forensic testimony and survive the onslaught of cross-examination in court.

It is not uncommon for practicing physicians to have more than a dozen separate insurance policies to protect their medical practice and personal assets.

Since the shutdown of our public psychiatry system, the seriously mentally ill are now mostly managed by public safety officers, school officials, emergency first responders and social workers with little experience in recognizing symptoms, triggers and issues.

Demystifying the Law: An Introduction for Professionals explains unfamiliar legal concepts in interesting contexts, thus helping you to understand and remember them.

There is growing public support for the use of cannabis for medical and recreational purposes, but what does science say about the matter?

Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon.

Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon.

Risk assessment and risk management are top of every mental health organisation's agenda.

The go-to resource for assessing and predicting functional abilities in persons with brain injury or cognitive decline has now been revised and expanded to reflect significant advances in the field.

This collection presents international viewpoints on interdisciplinary problems that fall under the new and emerging field of neurojustice.

The ability to reason ethically is an extraordinarily important aspect of professionalism in any field.

The third edition of this award-winning textbook has been revised and thoroughly updated.

The third edition of this award-winning textbook has been revised and thoroughly updated.

This book informs readers about how leading researchers are rethinking rehabilitation research and practice.

Drawing on the expertise of multi-degreed doctors, and multi-certified financial advisors, Comprehensive Financial Planning Strategies for Doctors and Advisors: Best Practices from Leading Consultants and Certified Medical Planners will shape the industry landscape for the next generation as the current ecosystem strives to keep pace.

Rehabilitation is dedicated to helping people not only survive, but also thrive.

Medical articles are one of the main vehicles of knowledge translation and evidence communication in the health sciences.

Weigh pivotal healthcare ethics, law, and public policy issues that resulted in tipping-point legal actionsWeighing the ethical considerations in healthcare and drug issues can be emotionally difficult and mentally challenging.

Geriatric Rehabilitation addresses the fact that this is an age in which individuals have increasing longevity, better health care, education and expectations of health care which present new, increasing and even radical challenges to health care providers.

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This book provides knowledge about the process of creating and designing products based on an Industry 4.

Forensic science has become a mainstay of popular culture on television, in movies, books, and podcasts.

Toxic Tort: Medical and Legal Elements, provides a primer covering medical and legal issues involved in toxic substances litigation.

THE CORE OF MENTAL HEALTH LAW A musty file in Arizona's Greenlee County Courthouse reveals that on January 22, 1912, shortly before Arizona became a state, a 19-year-old Mexican-American woman residing in Morenci was taken into custody and placed in the county jail by a deputy sheriff who, that same day, filed with the Greenlee County Probate Court the following commit- ment petition: Have known girl about one year.

Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide supplies a clear understanding of the interrelationships between Big Data, the new business insights it reveals, and the laws, regulations, and contracting practices that impact the use of the insights and the data.

Efficient mobile systems that allow for vital sign monitoring and disease diagnosis at the point of care can help combat issues such as rising healthcare costs, treatment delays in remote and resource-poor areas, and the global shortage of skilled medical personnel.

Mastery of quality health care and patient safety begins as soon as we open the hospital doors for the first time and start acquiring practical experience.

The testimony of an expert witness can lead to success or failure in cases that hinge on the presentation's impact on a jury.

Now in its second edition, the best-selling Color Atlas of Forensic Medicine and Pathology is an easy-to-read reference covering forensic pathology principles, from basic to advanced concepts relating to all manners of death.

The Daubert trilogy of U.

Modern technology using state-of-the-art equipment can now identify almost any toxin relevant to a legal issue.

A critical and often overlooked aspect of preventing medical device recalls is the ability to implement systems thinking.

Extensively updated and expanded to incorporate legislative and practical changes enacted since the publication of the previous edition, Law for the Expert Witness, Fourth Edition is designed for professionals and students requiring edification on the current processes and techniques of legal procedure.

Mastery of quality health care and patient safety begins as soon as we open the hospital doors for the first time and start acquiring practical experience.

The go-to resource for assessing and predicting functional abilities in persons with brain injury or cognitive decline has now been revised and expanded to reflect significant advances in the field.

Written by a foremost expert in the field, this hands-on, evidence-based guide describes how to conduct a comprehensive forensic neuropsychological evaluation and provide expert testimony.

Widely used by practitioners, researchers, and students--and now thoroughly revised with 70% new material--this is the most authoritative, comprehensive book on malingering and other response styles.