HLT POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Standard Deviation, Quantile, Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation
3 Jul 2020
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Reduce liability risk by improving your patient satisfaction. Data suggests that the educated patient can enhance the physician-patient encounter and even increase patient adherence to treatment plans,4 which can improve clinical outcomes5,6,7 and prevent lawsuits. 8. Knowing the drivers allows one to positively impact frequency and severity. Clearly, one can reduce liability risk by reducing the number of adverse clinical outcomes that occur; however, professional liability risk, not clinical risk, is the focus of this paper. When an adverse event occurs, the relationship created between patient and health care professional can be used to retain the patient. It is the health care professional who can actually help the patient and their family with information about what has or has not occurred, rather than a lawyer. However, a more recent study concluded that approximately forty percent of the medical malpractice cases filed in the united states are groundless.
