Radiologists and informed-consent lawsuits.

Spring, D B; Tennenhouse, Dan J.; Akin, John R.; Margulis, Alexander R.

doi:10.1148/radiology.156.1.4001416

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“…Interventional radiology lawsuits make up nearly one third of all radiology lawsuits. 28,29 In a study of radiology litigation (100 cases) that specifically analyzed cases using contrast-media (10 cases), each case in the study presented the legal issue of quality of care. 5 of the cases reviewed, 90% presented the legal issue of informed consent.…”

Section: Informed Consent-information To the Patientmentioning

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Information Management and the Legal Aspects of Interventional Radiology

Potchen¹,

Hollstein²

2001

Semin intervent Radiol

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RISK MANAGEMENT IN RADIOLOGYRadiologists once thought that their purpose in radiology was to produce images, thereby saving lives while earning a living. Some radiologists still think this way. These archaic thoughts mislead physicians from the purpose of practicing modern medicine. Specifically, the purpose of radiology is to diminish uncertainty. Radiologists accomplish this by providing information. Understanding radiology in terms of providing information to reduce uncertainty offers the radiologist a reasonable approach to risk management. A discussion on the aspects of information, in which we will cover documentation (recording information), communication (information from the patient), informed consent (information to the patient), prudent doctor doctrine or reasonable patient standard (choice of information), and off-label use (information regulation), follows. Throughout the discussion, information is the operative term in current risk management and health care. RISK MANAGEMENT-INFORMATION APPROACHRadiologists diminish uncertainty because they provide information. Their findings and opinions contribute additional data so the treating physician and the patient can make better-informed decisions. Reducing uncertainty in the medical care of patients and managing risk in professional liability share a common reliance on information being exchanged among people. Understanding how providing information enhances the management of risk begins with defining risk. Risk can be defined as the possibility that positive expectations are not fulfilled because of interfering events. Risk is determined by the quantity of harm and its unpredictable possibility of onset. 1 Simply stated, risk is the danger of failure in or of complications with a planned procedure. It follows that risk management is a systematic influence intended to minimize the consequences of risk.Risk management broadly integrates law and medicine. In today's litigious society, radiologists with 367 ABSTRACT Information is the key to practicing modern medicine. A radiologist provides information to patients, to the team that works with the radiologist, and to other healthcare providers. Information is defined as diminished randomness. Radiologists add value by decreasing randomness or diminishing uncertainty. They are in the business of uncertainty reduction. An understanding of the purpose of any human enterprise is a prerequisite to assessing the quality of an enterprise. This article discusses aspects of information that are relevant to improving patient care and therefore to reducing the risk of potential litigation. The discussion includes the following aspects: documentation, or the recording of information; communication, or the information from the patient; informed consent, or the information to the patient; the prudent doctor doctrine and the reasonable patient standard, or the choice of information; and off-label use, or the regulation of information.

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Section: Informed Consent-information To the Patientmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Management and the Legal Aspects of Interventional Radiology

Potchen¹,

Hollstein²

2001

Semin intervent Radiol

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Bildgebende Verfahren bei der Untersuchung des Harntraktes

Palubinskas¹

1992

Smiths Urologie

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Informed Consent to Treatment's Sociohistorical Discourse of Traditionalism: A Structurational Analysis of Radiology Residents' Accounts

Olufowote

2010

Health Communication

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Informed consent to treatment (IC) is designed to protect patient autonomy and control through disclosures and shared decisions. However, many malpractice claims suggest patients perceive problems with its handling (e.g., information withholding). Moreover, previous studies of IC lack the nuance of discursive perspectives, theoretical grounding, and recognition of IC's sociohistorical context. Drawing on a structurational perspective, which conceives of IC as constituted by contradictory sociohistorical structures (discourse formations) representing different groups' interests in controlling IC, this study examines how the structure representing physicians' interests is (re)produced in practice. Focus group accounts reveal how radiologists-drawing upon interpretive schemes of patients as fearful, ignorant, and easily controlled-discursively and skillfully manipulate IC language and information in engineering patients' decisions.

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Radiologists and informed-consent lawsuits.

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Information Management and the Legal Aspects of Interventional Radiology

Information Management and the Legal Aspects of Interventional Radiology

Bildgebende Verfahren bei der Untersuchung des Harntraktes

Informed Consent to Treatment's Sociohistorical Discourse of Traditionalism: A Structurational Analysis of Radiology Residents' Accounts

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