{"title":"Emergency hospital care: issues of treatment and liability.","authors":"J Baum","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increased utilization of hospital emergency rooms, and a departure from traditional physician-patient relationships, have resulted in increased litigation. Risks to hospitals can be minimized if certain policies are pursued.</p>","PeriodicalId":80221,"journal":{"name":"The Medical malpractice cost containment journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"27-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1979-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Medical malpractice cost containment journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Increased utilization of hospital emergency rooms, and a departure from traditional physician-patient relationships, have resulted in increased litigation. Risks to hospitals can be minimized if certain policies are pursued.