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Liability issues affecting toll-free nurse lines.

S R Huntington
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The expansion of nurse advice lines by health plans has exposed them to a new area of liability. The author explores several recent cases in which health plans have been found accountable for actions of their nurse advice lines, and offers a series of suggestions for reducing health plan liability.

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S R Huntington. 1999. Liability issues affecting toll-free nurse lines.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11184273/

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