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Malpractice Screening Panels: Do Nurses Have a Role?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2021
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Increasing numbers of nurses are being sued for malpractice. Confirmation of this statement may be found by surveying the case law of the various jurisdictions (which reveals that lawsuits against nurses, while still not common, are more frequent) and the nursing literature (which recently evidences a marked increase in the percentage of articles dealing with professional liability and related issues).
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- Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1980
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1. For a discussion of a recent national survey of the effectiveness of the screening panels, see Curran, WJ, Screening Panels in Malpractice Cases: Some Disturbing Progress Reports, New England Journal Of Medicine 302(17):954 (April 24, 1980).CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
2. Gugino v. Harvard Community Health Plan et. al., 403 N.E. 2d 1166 (Mass. 1980).Google Scholar
3. Id., at 1167.Google Scholar
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