NHA CCMA Certification study guide
Most common type of medical tort liability - Answer Negligence
A person being sued - Answer Defendant
The person of a physician from the care of a patient with out reasonable notice of such
discharge from the case by the patient is - Answer Abandonment
An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another is - Answer Assault
The healthcare worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted
reasonable as compared with the fellow workers. - Answer Reasonable care
The breaking of a law, promise,or duty - Answer Brcach
The time established for filling law suit - Answer Statute of limitations
A wrong committed against another person or the person's property - Answer Tort
One who institutes a lawsuit - Answer Plaintiff
Information given by a patient to medical personnel which cannot be disclosed without
consent of the person who gave it - Answer Privileged communication
Failure to do something that is reasonable person would do under ordinary
circumstances that ends up causing harm to another person - Answer Negligence
Injuring the name and reputation of another person by making false statements to a
third person - Answer Defamation
An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some definite -
Answer Contract
Lack of physical or mental fitness - Answer Incompetence
The final decision of a court in an action or suit - Answer Judgement
Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee - Answer Respondeate
superior
A Latin term signifying that a person is not of sound of mind - Answer Non compos
mentis
, A person who is no longer under the care,custody,or supervision of a parent - Answer
Emancipated minor
An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patient's complaints about
medical care or excessive feees is called a committee. - Answer Medical Grievance
Latin for "things done;deeds",the facts and circumstances attendant to the act in
question - Answer Res gestae
Testimony of a witness under oath and writtern down before trial for possible use when
the case comes to trial - Answer Deposition
A statute that enforces private right and liabilities,as differentiated from criminal law -
Answer Civil law
Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty - Answer Breach of duty
A deliberate physical attack upon a person - Answer Battery
Latin for "he who acts through another acts for himself" - Answer qui facit per alium
facit per se
The branch of study of moral issues,questions,and problems arising in the practice of
medicine and in biomedical research - Answer Bioethics
A statement given concerning some scientific,technical,or professional matter by an
expert,such as a physician - Answer Expert testimony
A patient's failure to act prudently and reasonably,or doing that which a reasonable
person would not do under similar circumstances - Answer Contributory negligence
Consent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of
unpreventable results of that treatment - Answer Assumption of risk
Conduct,courtesy,and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical
professionals are - Answer Medical etiquette
An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it
to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right - Answer
Fraud
To interrupt or discontinue a suit temporarily with the intention or resumption at a later
date,or ask for a continuance - Answer Suspension
Latin for "things decided" that is a matter already decided by judicial authority - Answer
Re judicata
Most common type of medical tort liability - Answer Negligence
A person being sued - Answer Defendant
The person of a physician from the care of a patient with out reasonable notice of such
discharge from the case by the patient is - Answer Abandonment
An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another is - Answer Assault
The healthcare worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted
reasonable as compared with the fellow workers. - Answer Reasonable care
The breaking of a law, promise,or duty - Answer Brcach
The time established for filling law suit - Answer Statute of limitations
A wrong committed against another person or the person's property - Answer Tort
One who institutes a lawsuit - Answer Plaintiff
Information given by a patient to medical personnel which cannot be disclosed without
consent of the person who gave it - Answer Privileged communication
Failure to do something that is reasonable person would do under ordinary
circumstances that ends up causing harm to another person - Answer Negligence
Injuring the name and reputation of another person by making false statements to a
third person - Answer Defamation
An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some definite -
Answer Contract
Lack of physical or mental fitness - Answer Incompetence
The final decision of a court in an action or suit - Answer Judgement
Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee - Answer Respondeate
superior
A Latin term signifying that a person is not of sound of mind - Answer Non compos
mentis
, A person who is no longer under the care,custody,or supervision of a parent - Answer
Emancipated minor
An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patient's complaints about
medical care or excessive feees is called a committee. - Answer Medical Grievance
Latin for "things done;deeds",the facts and circumstances attendant to the act in
question - Answer Res gestae
Testimony of a witness under oath and writtern down before trial for possible use when
the case comes to trial - Answer Deposition
A statute that enforces private right and liabilities,as differentiated from criminal law -
Answer Civil law
Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty - Answer Breach of duty
A deliberate physical attack upon a person - Answer Battery
Latin for "he who acts through another acts for himself" - Answer qui facit per alium
facit per se
The branch of study of moral issues,questions,and problems arising in the practice of
medicine and in biomedical research - Answer Bioethics
A statement given concerning some scientific,technical,or professional matter by an
expert,such as a physician - Answer Expert testimony
A patient's failure to act prudently and reasonably,or doing that which a reasonable
person would not do under similar circumstances - Answer Contributory negligence
Consent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of
unpreventable results of that treatment - Answer Assumption of risk
Conduct,courtesy,and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical
professionals are - Answer Medical etiquette
An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it
to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right - Answer
Fraud
To interrupt or discontinue a suit temporarily with the intention or resumption at a later
date,or ask for a continuance - Answer Suspension
Latin for "things decided" that is a matter already decided by judicial authority - Answer
Re judicata
