Malpractice or maljustice?

Medical Malpractice: A Preventable or Inevitable Issue

Off-label prescribing: best practice or malpractice?

‘‘Labels’’ for medicines are also known as the ‘‘package inserts’’ that list the details of the approval granted by regulatory authorities such as the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) for the sale of medicines by the pharmaceutical industry. ‘‘Off-label’’ means utilizing an approved medicine in a manner not contained in the approved ‘‘label.’’ Although it is illegal for employees of the ...

Malpractice Actions : Emerging Trend or Aberration ?

OGY,” the Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys (TASA) Web site lists more than 9,500 categories of experts. Large accounting firms and other forensic firms perform litigation support services. And the Martindale-Hubbell directory contains more than 4,000 experts, services, suppliers, and consultants. In just a few decades, expert witnesses in litigation have gone from a rarity to the common...

Practice guidelines and malpractice litigation: collision or cohesion?

Practice guidelines are standardized specifications for managing particular clinical problems and are intended to improve the outcomes of medical care by increasing adherence to standards of care. They are also meant to make medicine more cost-effective by eliminating unnecessary procedures. A relatively recent phenomenon, the practice guidelines now emerging will have implications for malpract...

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