Health Litigation
Mostrando 1-12 de 12 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Transtorno de identidade sexual em adultos e justiça: laudo psicológico para mudança de prenome / Transsexualism and justice: the impact of the psychological appraisal on forename change litigation
Transsexualism is defined as a desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort (or inappropriateness) with one\ s anatomic sex, and a wish to have surgical and hormonal treatment to make one\ s body as congruent as possible with one\ s preferred sex. This change triggers the need for legal adjustme
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 25/09/2012
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2. Perfil de demandas judiciais de medicamentos da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde do Espírito Santo: um estudo exploratório / Profile of lawsuits demanding medicines against the State Health Secretariat of Espírito Santo, Brazil: and exploratory study
Este trabalho tem por tema a judicialização do fornecimento de medicamentos, em particular as ações judiciais contra o Estado do Espírito Santo propostas por usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) pleiteando medicamentos. Este recurso pode ser fundamental para evitar a negligência do Estado, quando um paciente comprove a necessidade de determinado
Publicado em: 2010
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3. The public defender and collective access to justice / A defensoria pública e o acesso coletivo à justiça
The present study set out to understand the concept of collective access to the judicial system, starting from the verification of what this means in practice, how it is effected, and what mechanisms exist in the prevailing legal system that allow needy social groups to access the judicial system, as well as the legitimacy of the Public Legal Aid Service in
Publicado em: 2008
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4. Tutela extrajudicial de direitos coletivos em Pernambuco: MinistÃrio PÃblico, atividade autocompositiva e compromisso de ajustamento de conduta
The research surveys the possibilities of extrajudicial resolution in collective conflicts in the State of Pernambuco. Public prosecution service is constitutionally in charge of the protection of social rights. The so-called Compromisso de Ajustamento de Conduta (translated as Commitment to an Adjustment Behavior), is an agreement created by law, aiming to
Publicado em: 2007
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5. Impact of litigation on senior clinicians: implications for risk management.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the impact of litigation on consultants and senior registrars and to establish their views on methods of reducing adverse events and litigation. DESIGN: Postal survey. SETTING: Acute hospitals in the North Thames (West) Regional Health Authority. SUBJECTS: 1011 consultants and senior registrars in acute hospitals. MAIN MEASURES: Pe
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6. Health sciences librarians and mental health laws.
Two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, O'Connor v. Donaldson and Bounds v. Smith, hold important implications for health sciences librarians serving in mental health facilities. The first, O'Connor, with its many ancillary holdings, puts mental health personnel on notice that patients have certain basic rights, which courts all over the country will now be requir
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7. Can hospital relocations and closures be stopped through the legal system?
The recent history of litigation to stop hospital closings in or relocations from minority communities is reviewed. Legal arguments and facts raised by plaintiffs and defendants in seven cases are summarized in the context of civil rights and health planning legislation. The results of the litigation are mixed. One hospital was denied permission to close, bu
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8. Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue
The major tobacco manufacturers discovered that polonium was part of tobacco and tobacco smoke more than 40 years ago and attempted, but failed, to remove this radioactive substance from their products. Internal tobacco industry documents reveal that the companies suppressed publication of their own internal research to avoid heightening the public’s aware
American Public Health Association.
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9. Medical malpractice in perspective. II--The implications for Britain.
The "malpractice crisis" in the United States cannot be understood in isolation. Litigation is precipitated by features of the American health care and social security systems. Relative to the United Kingdom, there are fewer barriers of access to the courts, although the role of contingency fees has probably been exaggerated. Given the great institutional di
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10. Medical malpractice in perspective. I--The American experience.
Concern over the possibility of an American style medical malpractice "crisis" in the United Kingdom has recently been voiced by members of both medical and legal professions. The validity of such fears is examined by reviewing the conditions that have given rise to the current American difficulties. It is argued that the rise in malpractice insurance premiu
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11. Limitations of paperless on-line reporting of diagnostic bacteriology culture results.
AIMS: To estimate the extent to which microbiology laboratory results made available on a computerised reporting system do not reach their intended destination. METHODS: Prospective observational study of 180 urine cultures submitted from patients seen at the accident and emergency department of a 250 bed university affiliated general hospital. Observations
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12. Medicolegal audit in the West Midlands region: analysis of 100 cases.
One hundred medicolegal cases were analysed to obtain quantitative data about diagnoses and the causes of litigation that affect hospital doctors in the National Health Service. Sixteen actions concerned minor problems that are an unavoidable risk of treatment, and 39 were due to natural causes. In other cases it was debatable whether a medical accident or n