Legal Awareness: A Column Examining Contemporary and Relevant Medicolegal Issues

摘要

Welcome to "Legal Awareness," a new column that will promote awareness by highlighting and examining contemporary and relevant medicolegal issues. We have chosen this Special Legal Issue to launch the new column, and hope you will partner with us to explore the ever-increasing nexus between health care and the law. Whether the topic is negligent credentialing, nursing peer review, trends in lawsuits, informed consent, Patient Safety Organization privileging, or the "Just the Facts" theory of documentation, legal issues are permeating every aspect of health care today.