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Unit 4

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Invasion of privacy   Intrusion into a person's seclusion or into his or her private affairs  
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Assult   to openly threaten bodily harm to someone  
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Protocol   a code prescribing correct behavior in a specific situation, such as a situation arising in a medical office  
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Lay person   a person who is not a member of a given profession, as law or medicine.  
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Plea   2.defendant's answer to charge: the defendant's answer to a charge in a court of law, especially one stating that he or she is guilty or not guilty  
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Subpoena   A legal document requiring the recipient to appear as a witness in court or to give a deposition  
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Defense Attorney    
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Deposition   Sworn testimony given and recorded outside the courtroom during the pre-trial phase of the case.  
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Expert Witness   a physician called as a witness to testify to the standard of care regarding the matter in question;if defendant is a specialist, the witness is usually in the same specialty  
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Fraud   Dishonest or deceitful practices in depriving, or attempting to deprive, another of his or her rights  
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Contributory negligence   An affirmation defense that alleges that the plaintiff, through a lack of care, caused or contributed to his or her own injury.  
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Comparative negligence   an affirmative defense claimed by the defendent, alleging that the plaintiff contributed to the injury by a certain degree  
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Examination    
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Defamation   damaging a person's reputation by making public statements that are both false and malicious  
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Liable   Accountable under the law  
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Liability Insurance   Offers finacial protection; attorney fees, damages, court costs, to cover self, to cover staff  
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Libel   Expressing through publication in print, writing, pictures, or signed statements that injure the reputation of another  
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Slander   The speaking of defamatory words intended to prejudice others against an individual in a manner that jeopardizes his or her reputation or means of livelihood.  
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Malfeasance   The performance of a totally wrongful and unlawful act.  
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Misfeasance:   The performance of a lawful act in an illegal or improper manner  
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Nonfeasance   The failure to act when one should  
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Duty of care   The legal obligation of health care workers to patients and sometimes nonpatients  
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Feasance   The performance of an act  
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Statute of limitations   that period of time established by state law during which a lawsuit may be filed  
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Tortfeasor   One who committed a tort (wrongful act)  
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Res Judicata   The thing has been decided. Legal principle that a claim cannot be retried between the same parties if it has already been legally resolved  
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Going bare   Another way of saying the physician has no liablility (Malpractice) insurance  
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Release of tortfeasor:   a technical defense that prohibits a lawsuit against a person who caused an injury (the tortfeasor) if he or she was expressly released from further liability in the settlement of a suit  
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The 4 C's of medical malpractice prevention   Clear, concise, complete, chronological  
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Battery   any bodily contact without permission  
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The 4 D's of nelgigance   Duty, Dereliction or Duty Breached, Direct Cause, Damages  
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Duty   the person charged with negligence owed a duty of care to the accuser  
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Dereliction or Duty breached   the health care provider breached the duty of care to the patient  
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Damages   There is a legally recognizable injury to the patientq  
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Malpractice   professional negligence  
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Commission   to perform in a way that a reasonable/prudent healthcare worker would not  
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Omission   Failure to perform an act a reasonable/prudent heatlhcare worker would perform  
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Contributory neligence   conduct by the patient which contributed to the harm the patient suffered. (Patient partly responsible) Not used in Wisconsin  
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Comparative negligence   Compared % of fault (both wrongdoers and patient) If wrongdoers fault is greater than the patient, the percentage affects monetary compensation  
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Res ipsa Loquitor:   The thing speaks for itself; Also known as the Doctrine of Common Knowledge, a situation that is so obviously negligent that no expert witnesses need to be called  
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Proximate cause   That which, in any natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any intervening cause, produces injury  
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Risk Management   the taking of steps to minimize danger, hazard, and liability  
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Defensive Medicine   the practice or ordering and/or performing medical tests and procedures simply to protect against future liability and to contruct for patients a medical record that documents the health care provider's judgment.  
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Corporate compliance   prevention of criminal prosecutions/civil suits/reduce fines. Prevention against corporate wrong-doing conflicts of interest in business, adherence to laws and regulations  
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Conflict of Interest   A situation in which a person is faced with choosing between financial gain and his or her duty to provide the best possible medical care to patients  
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Sentinel Event   Unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury to a patient  
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Credentialing   The process verifies a physician’s credentials,License, Malpractice history, Education and training, Hospital privileges, NPDB findings, Work history  
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Regulatory Compliance   a Compliance plan government regulations are upheld  
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CMS   Centers for Medicare and Medicaid  
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Joint Commission   heatlh care regulatory agency, voluntary  
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Quality Improvement/Quality Assurance   (QI) A program of measures taken by health care providers and practitioners to uphold the quality of patient care.  
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