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Article: Why time-dependent treatments increase your risk of being sued.
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- ED Nursing
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Why time-dependent treatments increase your risk of being sued
If a stroke patient arrives within four and one-half hours of symptom onset, this means two things. One, your patient could be saved from a devastating disability if he or she is a candidate for treatment with thrombolytics. On the other hand, however, you could end up getting sued for delaying care.
"In my 19 years as an emergency department expert witness, I have seen many cases involving a delay in care at the front end. Many involve undertriage of the patient's acuity," says Christine ...