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  • Title: Legal aspects of medication administration.
    Author: Fiesta J.
    Journal: Nurs Manage; 1998 Jan; 29(1):22-3. PubMed ID: 9479153.
    Abstract:
    The author reviews several cases involving medication errors and advises that one way to make a malpractice case worse is to be accused of delay in informing the patient or family of the circumstances. If fraud or intentional concealment is established, punitive damages may be awarded--which are not covered by malpractice insurance policies since this is an intentional act.
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