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L Newby

Publications and source records attributed to L Newby.

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PubMed1996

A typology for legal risk management in patient care in Australian hospitals.

The author reviewed the literature on legal risk management in patient care, and carried out research in two acute care hospitals. The hospital research involved auditing policies and procedures, interviewing key people in the hospital, reviewing external legal and policy trends, and examining selected complaints files and legal cases. The results were used to develop a 'typology' of legal risk management to provide guidelines and assistance to hospital management in improving their hospital's strategic response to legal vulnerability. The model sets out four levels of legal risk management programs, and identifies specific components classified as promoting loss prevention, or loss minimisation.

Duty to Warn↗
PubMed1995

The Quality in Australian Health Care Study.

A review of the medical records of over 14,000 admissions to 28 hospitals in New South Wales and South Australia revealed that 16.6% of these admissions were associated with an "adverse event", which resulted in disability or a longer hospital stay for the patient and was caused by health care management; 51% of the adverse events were considered preventable. In 77.1% the disability had resolved within 12 months, but in 13.7% the disability was permanent and in 4.9% the patient died.

Adolescent↗