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Preventing defensive medicine of first responders in disaster settings

Healthcare workers might be unaware of their legal liability while they respond to a medical emergency, which could be crucial especially when assisting in other countries. Therefore experts from the fields of public health and emergency medicine voice their concern over potential individual and organizational liability issues because the requirements and limitations of laws in the context of mass-scale disasters are not clear enough. Although every country needs to have a regulation for protection of providers in the times of emergency situations and disasters, existing legislations, regulations and statements were not sufficient for providing adequate protection to healthcare workers in recent cases. In this presentation, we propose a framework which could be helpful to reduce exposure to unfair legal claims for first responder healthcare volunteers in the acute, and prevent defensive medicine practices while providing healthcare services in disaster settings.

defensive medicine ; disasters ; first responders ; liability

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