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Can You Defend the Actions of Your Medical Assistants?Physicians are held responsible for their own actions, but can also be held responsible (i.e., vicariously liable) for the actions of staff they supervise and/or employ. Assessing staff competency in performing clinical tasks is both a good patient safety and risk management tool. Read More...The Sports Physical: When Sports & Medicine CollideThousands of students participate each year in school sports competitions. To protect the health of participants (and to reduce liability risks for sponsors of athletic contests), 49 out of 50 states and the District of Columbia require student athletes undergo medical preparticipation examinations. Read More...Patient Hand-Offs: What's the Big Deal?“Hand-offs” in patient care—when care of a patient is transferred from one physician to another—is a critical point in continuity of care. This is when information is exchanged concerning the care of the patient by one physician to the next. Many factors such as timing, incomplete information, poor relationships, and location where hand-offs occur can influence the quality of a patient hand-off. Hand-offs occur in all health care settings—in a physician’s office when a patient is referred to a specialist, in noisy and chaotic emergency departments, on hospital floors, or among anesthesiologists who may be covering several surgeries at once. Read More...
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