Finding a Way through the Hospital Door: The Role of EMTALA in Public Health Emergencies
| Autor: | Brian Kamoie, Sara J. Rosenbaum |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Common law Legislation Context (language use) Medicare 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Statute 03 medical and health sciences Patient Admission 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Mass Screening 030212 general & internal medicine Licensure business.industry Health Policy Public health 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Therapeutic jurisprudence medicine.disease United States Issues ethics and legal aspects Insurance status Emergency medicine Legislation Hospital Terrorism United States Dept. of Health and Human Services Public Health 060301 applied ethics Medical emergency Emergencies Emergency Service Hospital business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 31:590-601 |
| ISSN: | 1748-720X 1073-1105 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1748-720x.2003.tb00126.x |
| Popis: | This article examines the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) in a public health emergency context. Congress enacted EMTALA in 1986 to prohibit the practice of “patient clumping,” which involved hospitals’ refusal to undertake emergency screening and stabilization services for individual patients who sought emergency room care, typically because of insurance status, inability to pay, or other grounds unrelated to the patient’s need for the services or the hospital’s ability to provide them. But in fact EMTALA, whose conceptual roots can be found in the Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946 (Hill Burton) as well as an evolution in both the common law and state statutes related to hospital licensure, can be viewed as having a far broader purpose than protection of individuals, and indeed, one that is related to the protection of communities and the public health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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