About this Research Topic
From the 90s to date, Clinical Risk Management has become an increasingly important issue in Healthcare systems. It is crucial because of the reverberation that it establishes on Patient Safety and optimization for the patients' clinical outcomes.
Furthermore, in many States, Healthcare Safety has recently become a constituent element of the right to health guaranteed for citizens. On the one hand, this has made Clinical Risk Management even more essential and, on the other hand, has opened an interesting debate on the numerous medical-legal aspects that have arisen and that will increase even more over time.
Today more than ever, the recent development of the application areas of Clinical Risk Management presents very delicate aspects. The recent modernization of Healthcare Systems has posed some interesting challenges on the Safety of Care: medical professional liability, the management of medico-legal disputes, informed consent, physician-assisted suicide, the prevention of nosocomial infections, the development of telemedicine, the humanization of care, the error's communication, the management and handling of complaints, and many other issues of great interest. These problems, moreover, have been put into question again, regaining an important centrality in the National Healthcare Systems.
This is how Clinical Risk Management presents a multitude of aspects and implications from a medico-legal point of view, both in preventing the occurrence of adverse events and managing them once they occurred.
This systemic vision today presents a new global challenge: reaching an idea as integrated as possible of Clinical Risk Management in which the Safety of Care can only be achieved by guaranteeing at the same time the safety of patients, healthcare professionals, and hospitals.
We invite all Article Types, including original research, evaluation, perspective, community case studies, policy analyses, and reviews.
We would particularly like to encourage the submission of articles with data, elements, or forward-looking ideas.
Possible topics include all regulatory aspects of Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety and all the medico-legal implications seen from the point of view of civil and criminal medical liability, ethical and bioethical aspects, management of medico-legal disputes, prevention, monitoring, management, and reporting of adverse events.
We welcome Evaluation studies on these topics with a particular interest in direct experiences and future perspectives that the authors will want to propose.
Furthermore, in many States, Healthcare Safety has recently become a constituent element of the right to health guaranteed for citizens. On the one hand, this has made Clinical Risk Management even more essential and, on the other hand, has opened an interesting debate on the numerous medical-legal aspects that have arisen and that will increase even more over time.
Today more than ever, the recent development of the application areas of Clinical Risk Management presents very delicate aspects. The recent modernization of Healthcare Systems has posed some interesting challenges on the Safety of Care: medical professional liability, the management of medico-legal disputes, informed consent, physician-assisted suicide, the prevention of nosocomial infections, the development of telemedicine, the humanization of care, the error's communication, the management and handling of complaints, and many other issues of great interest. These problems, moreover, have been put into question again, regaining an important centrality in the National Healthcare Systems.
This is how Clinical Risk Management presents a multitude of aspects and implications from a medico-legal point of view, both in preventing the occurrence of adverse events and managing them once they occurred.
This systemic vision today presents a new global challenge: reaching an idea as integrated as possible of Clinical Risk Management in which the Safety of Care can only be achieved by guaranteeing at the same time the safety of patients, healthcare professionals, and hospitals.
We invite all Article Types, including original research, evaluation, perspective, community case studies, policy analyses, and reviews.
We would particularly like to encourage the submission of articles with data, elements, or forward-looking ideas.
Possible topics include all regulatory aspects of Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety and all the medico-legal implications seen from the point of view of civil and criminal medical liability, ethical and bioethical aspects, management of medico-legal disputes, prevention, monitoring, management, and reporting of adverse events.
We welcome Evaluation studies on these topics with a particular interest in direct experiences and future perspectives that the authors will want to propose.
Keywords: Legal Medicine, Clinical Risk Management, Patient Safety, Safety of Care, Medical Liability
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