Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Liability legal
Responsibility to do something, pay something, or refrain from doing something. Liability is used to refer to a legal obligation, often one which must be enforced by a lawsuit.
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Leave of absence
A predetermined period of time during a hospital stay when the patient is permitted to be away from the hospital, with the understanding that the patient will return at the end of the period. An LOA may be for a few hours, a day, or several days. A leave is granted by the attending physician…
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Learned intermediary
A legal defense used by manufacturers of drugs and medical devices which grants them immunity from strict products liability for design defects or “failure to warn” if they properly warned the physician who prescribed the treatment or medical intervention. The physician is considered the “learned intermediary”. The manufacturer’s duty to warn the patient is relieved…
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Labor-delivery-recovery suites
Hospital suites in which a maternity patient stays from the time of admission, through labor and recovery from delivery. The postpartum portion of the hospital stay is provided in other quarters. In some hospitals LDRSs are being replaced by labor-delivery-recovery-postpartum suites (LDRPSs) in which the entire stay (except for such procedures as caesarean sections) is…
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Labor-delivery-recovery-postpartum suites
Hospital suites in which a maternity patient can remain in the same suite from admission to the hospital, through labor, delivery, and recovery in the postpartum period until the time of discharge. Procedures such as caesarean sections are not performed in such suites, however. In some hospitals LDRPSs are replacing labor-delivery-recovery suites (LDRSs) in which…
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Knowledge-based information management
A term used by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) in Standard IM.9.1 of the chapter on Management of Information. Knowledge-based information management “…consists of systems, resources, and services to help health professionals acquire and maintain the knowledge and skills needed to care for patients, support clinical and management decision making, and…
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Key clinical findings
A term used in the Medisgroups 11 method of measuring the severity of a patient’s illness or injury (see severity of illness). KCFs are found in a “standardized medical glossary,” a list of “…objective clinical findings (e.g. lab test results)…” Severity is defined in the KCF system as likelihood of organ failure.
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Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
An independent, nonprofit, voluntary organization sponsored by the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and other medical, dental, and health care organizations. JCAHO is the successor to the Hospital Standardization Program (HSP) of the ACS. It is based in Chicago,…
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Jehovah’s Witnesses
A religious group holding a belief that prohibits any member to receive a blood transfusion. While it has been established that any adult can refuse treatment for him or herself, no court has upheld a parent’s wish, based on religious beliefs, that medical intervention be withheld from their child if a reasonable parent would want…
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Investigator
A term used for anyone doing investigation. In health care, “investigator” means an individual who is carrying out research under federal regulation; he must meet certain standards of informed consent of subjects, peer review, reporting, and accounting.
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