Add to ORKGPatients behaving badly – Balancing duty of care and trespass to the person It is uncontested that ED staff owe a duty of care to patients who are aggressive or violent but what constitutes a breach of that duty is less clear. Sometimes ED staff restrain and sedate aggressive patients against their will in order for tests to rule out serious illness to be done or for time to elapse and diffuse the situation. But could such action, in certain circumstances, be trepass to the person or false imprisonment? What would be the ‘reasonable’ steps a clinician should take before deciding a course of actio
Objectives The authors focus on the issue of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization as a possible ...
First paragraph: Even the most effective prediction techniques will not prevent all aggression in me...
There is increasing concern as to how health professionals respond to patients who are considered n...
Patients who are abusive or aggressive in ED raise special clinical and legal challenges. These incl...
Every day in EDs, clinicians are faced with situations where they need to decide whether to detain a...
Sixty years have passed since occupiers in England and Wales were placed under a statutory duty to k...
In most jurisdictions, the Tarasoff duty is defined as a duty on the part of mental health professio...
Abstract: Over the past 30 years, the courts in North America have examined the responsibility that ...
© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Significant, sustained improvement in patient safety ha...
Key words: Violent attackt/Assault/Necessary self-defence and extreme emergency (necessity)/Sane pat...
One Jones, a mental incompetent, was erroneously released as recovered from a state hospital for t...
Introduction: legal and criminal liability of the health professionals, regardless its antiquity, at...
The law recognizes two quite distinct wrongs: there is the intentional interference with bodily inte...
Dealing with violence and aggression is an area where health professionals often feel uncertain. Sta...
Psychiatric practice involves an implied contract in which each party fulfills a specialized role an...
Objectives The authors focus on the issue of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization as a possible ...
First paragraph: Even the most effective prediction techniques will not prevent all aggression in me...
There is increasing concern as to how health professionals respond to patients who are considered n...
Patients who are abusive or aggressive in ED raise special clinical and legal challenges. These incl...
Every day in EDs, clinicians are faced with situations where they need to decide whether to detain a...
Sixty years have passed since occupiers in England and Wales were placed under a statutory duty to k...
In most jurisdictions, the Tarasoff duty is defined as a duty on the part of mental health professio...
Abstract: Over the past 30 years, the courts in North America have examined the responsibility that ...
© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Significant, sustained improvement in patient safety ha...
Key words: Violent attackt/Assault/Necessary self-defence and extreme emergency (necessity)/Sane pat...
One Jones, a mental incompetent, was erroneously released as recovered from a state hospital for t...
Introduction: legal and criminal liability of the health professionals, regardless its antiquity, at...
The law recognizes two quite distinct wrongs: there is the intentional interference with bodily inte...
Dealing with violence and aggression is an area where health professionals often feel uncertain. Sta...
Psychiatric practice involves an implied contract in which each party fulfills a specialized role an...
Objectives The authors focus on the issue of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization as a possible ...
First paragraph: Even the most effective prediction techniques will not prevent all aggression in me...
There is increasing concern as to how health professionals respond to patients who are considered n...