Patient abuse
Patient abuse or neglect is any action or failure to act which causes unreasonable suffering, misery or harm to the patient.[1] Elder abuse is classified as patient abuse of those older than 60 and forms a large proportion of patient abuse.[2]
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- Abuse includes physically striking or sexually assaulting a patient. It also includes the intentional withholding of necessary food, physical care, and medical attention.
- Neglect includes the failure to properly attend to the needs and care of a patient, or the unintentional causing of injury to a patient, whether by act or omission.[3]
- This article incorporates "medical abuse", which has a similar meaning but relates more specifically to harmful medical treatment rather than care in general, and may include victims who did not choose to be patients.
Patient abuse and neglect may occur in settings such as hospitals,[4] nursing homes,[5][6] clinics[7] and during home-based care.[8] Health professionals who abuse patients may be deemed unfit to practice and have their medical license removed[9]: 20 as well as facing criminal charges as well as civil cases.
Abuse amongst the general adult population has not been well-addressed in literature.[2]: 8
Sexual abuse
The rate of sexual abuse in the United States is 9.5 per 10,000 physicians per 10 years.[10]: 1331 Female and younger patients are more likely to experience sexual abuse and male doctors older who perform examinations in non-academic settings are more likely to perpetrate sexual abuse.[10]: 1330
See also
- Aggression in healthcare
- Blacklisting of patients by doctors
- Bullying in medicine
- Bullying in nursing
- Category:Health care professionals convicted of murdering patients
- Iatrogenesis
- Medical harm
- Medical malpractice
- Medical torture
- Political abuse of psychiatry
- Unethical human experimentation
- Never events
- Professional abuse
- Foster care#Abuse and negligence
- Whistleblower
- Winterbourne View hospital abuse
- Wrongful involuntary commitment
References
- "Patient Abuse". Stop Fraud Colorado. Colorado Attorney General's Office. Archived from the original on 26 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- Goodman, Octavia (2020). Preventing Patient Abuse: Why Abuse Happens and How to Stop It (PDF). The International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety – Foundation.
- "Medicaid Fraud Definitions". Office of the Attorney General. State of Ohio. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- Slavin, Erik (16 January 2010). "Doctor faces court-martial in patient abuse case". Stars & Stripes. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- Larson, Aaron (12 July 2015). "Warning Signs for Abuse and Neglect in Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities". ExpertLaw. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- "Patient abuse – nurse struck off". BBC News. 30 April 2003. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- Krell, Alexis (9 October 2017). "Doctor charged with sex crimes at Bremerton clinic is at center of women's lawsuit". The News Tribune. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- Gorman, Anna (6 January 2015). "When Home Caregivers Kill the Elderly With Neglect". The Atlantic. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- The GMC's fitness to practise procedures (PDF). General Medical Council.
- AbuDagga, Azza; Carome, Michael; Wolfe, Sidney M. (July 2019). "Time to End Physician Sexual Abuse of Patients: Calling the U.S. Medical Community to Action". Journal of General Internal Medicine. 34 (7): 1330–1333. doi:10.1007/s11606-019-05014-6. ISSN 0884-8734. PMC 6614523. PMID 31044409.
Further reading
Nonfiction Books
- Bostwick, JS. The Patient Abuse and Neglect of Our Vulnerable Adults: America's Shame (2008)
- Caron, NK. Impact of effectiveness in implementation of the patient abuse reporting law on the reporting of "physical abuse, mistreatment, neglect" in residential health care facilities (1981)
- Close BA, Greenberg MS, Morgenstern BR Nursing Home Patient Abuse – Realities and Remedies (1981)
- Costa, MD Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy, and the Medical Abuse of Women (2007)
- Mackay, T. Without Due Care – An Australian Hospital Tragedy (2010)
- Shannon, JM. Patient abuse law: the reality (1983)
- Sundram CJ Patient abuse and mistreatment in psychiatric centers: a policy for reporting apparent crimes to and response by law enforcement agencies (1985)
- Thomas, G. Journey into madness:the true story of secret CIA mind control and medical abuse (1989)
Academic articles
- Armstrong B A Question of Abuse: Where Staff and Patient Rights Collide – Hosp Community Psychiatry 1979 May;30(5):348-51.
- Burkin K, Kleiner BH (1998) "Protecting the whistleblower: preventing retaliation following a report of patient abuse in health-care institutions", Health Manpower Management, Vol.24 Issue 3 Pages 119–124
- Gutheil TG Patient Abuse – Hosp Community Psychiatry 35:832, August 1984
- Isaacman SH Patient Abuse in Rural Midwestern Pregnant Women? – Archives of Family Medicine, 1993;2(4):351.
- LaRocco SA Patient Abuse Should Be Your Concern – Journal of Nursing Administration April 1985 – Volume 15 Issue 4 Pages 27–31
- LaRocco SA A case of patient abuse – American Journal of Nursing: November 1985 – Volume 85 Issue 11 Pages 1233–1236
- Santistevan A, Deiker T Asking the Patient About Abuse and Neglect-Five-Point Plan, Las Vegas (NM) Medical Center 1988
- Sundram CJ Obstacles to Reducing Patient Abuse in Public Institutions Hosp Community Psychiatry 35:238–243, March 1984
Fiction
- Abagnalo, George. Boy on a Pony (Moreland Press, 2001) (exploring privileged sexual abuse of patients within the healthcare system).
External links
- Patients First
- California Patient Abuse and Neglect Reporting Requirements Summary
- Doctors and Sexual Abuse – investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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