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The Medical-Legal Aspects of Acute Care Medicine: A Resource for Clinicians Administrators and Risk Managers is a comprehensive resource intended to provide a state-of-the-art overview of complex ethical regulatory and legal issues of importance to clinical healthcare professionals in the area of acute care medicine; including for example physicians advanced practice providers nurses pharmacists social workers and care managers. In addition this book also covers key legal and regulatory issues relevant to non-clinicians such as hospital and practice administrators; department heads educators and risk managers. This text reviews traditional and emerging areas of ethical and legal controversies in healthcare such as resuscitation; mass-casualty event response and triage; patient autonomy and shared decision-making; medical research and teaching; ethical and legal issues in the care of the mental health patient; and medical record documentation and confidentiality. Furthermore this volume includes chapters dedicated to critically important topics such as team leadership the team model of clinical care drug and device regulation professional negligence clinical education the law of corporations tele-medicine and e-health medical errors and the culture of safety regulatory compliance the regulation of clinical laboratories the law of insurance and a practical overview of claims management and billing. Authored by experts in the field The Medical-Legal Aspects of Acute Care Medicine: A Resource for Clinicians Administrators and Risk Managers is a valuable resource for all clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals.