Product Summary:
Legal Aspects of General Dental Practice
Author: L D'Cruz
ISBN: 9780443100383
Product code: BC020
Format: Hardback, 124pp, 189mm x 246mm
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone (Elsevier)
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Summary (from the publisher)
A guide to essential legal issues for the general dental practitioner.
This book gives a detailed understanding of key areas such as consent and negligence and highlights the clinical risk areas in general dental practice and ways of managing these risks. The author helps the dentist address the prime concern that treatments should be defensible and justifiable.
Takes account of variations in law within British Isles (e.g. between England and Scotland).
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Contents
Legal structures and processes that impact in general dental practice
Off the record
Consent - getting to yes
Confidentiality
Clinical negligence
Writing reports
Appendix 1: General Dental council performance procedures
Appendix 2: Table: record audit completeness
Appendix 3: Audits of radiographic image quality
Appendix 4: Quick reference: access to health records checklist
Appendix 5: GDC guidance on principles of confidentiality
Appendix 6: General Dental Council guidance on obtaining consent
Appendix 7: Examination of patient - for use in report writing
Appendix 8: Declaration by expert at end of report
Appendix 9: Civil procedure Rules
Appendix 10: CPR practice directions for experts and assessors
Appendix 11: Irish law
Appendix 12: Scottish issues on consent
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Author biography
Len D'Cruz, General Dental Practitioner and Dento-Legal Adviser, London, UK
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