Overview
- First-of-its-kind text addressing the problem of against medical advice discharges in hospital-based healthcare
- Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of a significant health care quality problem
- Addresses the legal, ethical, and institutional aspects of the problem as well as provides a framework for best practices for varied clinical disciplines including emergency medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, hospital medicine, and nursing
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Table of contents(11 chapters)
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Ethical, Legal, and Empirical Considerations
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Preventing and Managing Against Medical Advice Discharges Across the Spectrum of Care
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Editors and Affiliations
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VHA National Center for Ethics in Health Care, Department of Veterans Affairs, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA
David Alfandre
About the editor
David Alfandre, MD, MSPH
VHA National Center for Ethics in Health Care
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Associate Professor of Medicine and Population Health
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Against‐Medical‐Advice Discharges from the Hospital
Book Subtitle: Optimizing Prevention and Management to Promote High Quality, Patient-Centered Care
Editors: David Alfandre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75130-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75129-0Published: 28 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09155-2Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75130-6Published: 17 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 181
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: General Practice / Family Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery, Pediatrics