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Pressure ulcers in nursing homes: does negligence litigation exceed available evidence?

Nursing homes today face an increasing amount of oversight as they comply with regulations from federal, state, and local governments and agencies. The trend of judicial oversight, particularly in cases involving pressure ulcers, presents a unique set of challenges to the nursing home industry. The standards of care that are increasingly applied to establish the incidence of negligence in relevant cases are dependent on an under-researched area of the clinical phenomenon of skin breakdown within a frail elderly population. As the nursing home population continues to grow and resources are further strained, finding ways to best utilize resources becomes imperative. Consideration must be given to the growing body of evidence indicating that some patients are incapable of mounting a "normal" response to the physical forces responsible for the damage observed with pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcers have evolved to the status of being a synonym for neglect and/or abuse. Clinicians must focus on establishing a realistic and far more nuanced body of knowledge regarding pressure ulcers among the frail elderly.

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Guidelines for expert witness testimony in medical malpractice litigation. Committee on Medical Liability. American Academy of Pediatrics.

The interests of the public and the medical profession are best served when scientifically sound and unbiased expert witness testimony is readily available to plaintiffs and defendants in medical negligence suits. As members of the physician community, as patient advocates, and as private citizens, pediatricians have ethical and professional obligations to assist in the administration of justice, particularly in matters concerning potential medical malpractice. The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that the adoption of the recommendations outlined in this statement will improve the quality of medical expert witness testimony in such proceedings and thereby increase the probability of achieving equitable outcomes. Strategies to enforce ethical guidelines should be monitored for efficacy before offering policy recommendations on disciplining physicians for providing biased, false, or unscientific medical expert witness testimony.

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Absence of physician recourse in malpractice litigation--malicious prosecution.

The courts are protective of the plaintiff's rights under law to seek redress in the court by placing the facts of their allegations before a judge or jury. Because the avenue to the court is through representation and advocacy, the courts equally are protective of the agent of that representation, the attorney. To date, no physician who has been sued for medical malpractice in Louisiana has brought a successful malicious prosecution claim against the plaintiff or his attorney.

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