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Comply with Privacy Rights to Avoid Unconsented Intimate Exams

AIHC

Written by Gabriella Neff, RHIA, CHA, CHC, CHRC, CHPC This past year, in 2024, revisions were made to clarify hospital guidelines related to informed consent specifically addressing UIEs (unconsented intimate exams) to patients while under anesthesia. OCR recently issued an FAQ focusing on this right. [6]

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

2003) (risk differences between two types of vaccines held insufficient to justify a warning that one was “preferred”); Thomas , 949 F.2d Plaintiffs’ treating physician during her hospitalizations, testified that no other. . . Accord Graham v. American Cyanamid Co. , 3d 496, 514 (6th Cir.

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