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Life Care Planning: Past, Present, and Future
Published in Roger O. Weed, Debra E. Berens, Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook, 2018
Life care planning continues to realize new horizons. Since the life care plan first emerged in the rehabilitation literature in the 1980s, the concept has grown immensely to represent the most effective case management method within the specialty practice, particularly with regard to complex medically challenging cases (Deutsch et al., 1989b; Kitchen et al., 1989; Weed & Sluis, 1990, Blackwell et al., 1997; Weed, 2007). As this book goes to press, many of the topics that were considered the future of life care planning just a few years ago have already become the present (Deutsch, 1994). Life care planning in the areas of reserve setting for insurance companies, managed care organizations, workers’ compensation, personal injury, facility discharge planning, and government-funded vaccine injury programs have strongly endorsed the concept. In civil injury litigation, the Daubert (1993) and Kumho rulings (see the new Chapter 36 on Admissibility as well as Weed & Johnson, 2006) will continue to affect how some professionals develop life care plans by encouraging the practice of using consistent, researched, and critiqued methods of developing opinions (see chapters on forensics and perspectives by defense and plaintiff attorneys for more information).
Tort Law Generally
Published in Marshall S. Shapo, Understanding the Law for Physicians, Healthcare Professionals, and Scientists, 2018
The particular case of vaccines demonstrates a parallel between common law decision-making and legislation. Responding to the costs of vaccine injuries, Congress in 1986 enacted the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which set up a no-fault compensation system under which persons injured by vaccines could file petitions. An alternative for those unsatisfied with the decision of a special master for the Secretary of Health and Human Services was to file a regular tort action.
Towards a functional electronic health record—soon
Published in Phelps Charles E, Parente Stephen T, The Economics of US Health Care Policy, 2017
Phelps Charles E, Parente Stephen T
A second law may also prove important (but we cannot determine that yet): a law limiting liability for data breaches and a national compensation plan created (and funded by taxes on the TTP industry) to pay for losses associated with security breaches. Such a plan could follow the pathway of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program created by the Congress in 1986.
An exploration of vaccination in the 19th century through the eyes of Dr. Albert Mackey
Published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2022
Criticism of vaccine mandates has drawn inspiration from political ideologies throughout history. This link between politics and broader political factors (e.g., cultural trends, social movements, political parties) is important for antivaccination campaigns to flourish.9 Most vaccination criticisms range from conspiracy theories to outright denials of the state’s power to meddle in private persons’ health. Moreover, vaccine skeptics on mandates have generally used conspiracy theories to attribute harmful intentions to unknown persons in conjunction with rhetoric denouncing state interference with an individual’s medical autonomy.9 More crucially, criticism of vaccination policy frequently reflects broader social worries about public authorities’ ability to withstand corporate pressure and other lobbying efforts. These arguments typically cite flaws in early pharmacosurveillance systems, which have aided in the formation of vaccine injury compensation programs.
‘From cover-up to catastrophe:’ how the anti-vaccine propaganda documentary ‘Vaxxed’ impacted student perceptions and intentions about MMR vaccination
Published in Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2022
Amanda S. Bradshaw, Summer S. Shelton, Alexis Fitzsimmons, Debbie Treise
Participants also cited a powerful scene showing a toddler smiling and beginning to walk in a home video. A later video reportedly filmed after the administration of the MMR vaccine at 15 months showed severe regression in the child’s mobility and verbal skills. Participants seemed particularly concerned by this ‘proof’ of vaccine injury. The stories, ‘This is what happened to my child,’ especially the video of the child walking and then after what happened … They have the time and date and everything. So, it’s like you can’t really deny that. (Alex*)
Beyond the birds and the bees: a qualitative content analysis of online HPV vaccination communication
Published in Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2018
Beth Sundstrom, Erin Aylor, Kathleen B. Cartmell, Heather M. Brandt, Debbie Chatman Bryant, Chanita Hughes Halbert, Jennifer Young Pierce
Individuals and organizations expressed fear of potential harmful side effects of the HPV vaccine. Analysis revealed scientifically inaccurate messaging that the vaccine could cause harmful, life threatening side effects. These messages spread misinformation about the vaccine directed toward the target populations. The television station, WBTW News13, an affiliate of CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) covering the communities in Myrtle Beach and Florence, South Carolina, published an article in which HPV vaccination recipient Ashley Adair is quoted as saying, “HPV vaccination ruined my life’. Ms. Adair compares the HPV vaccination to ‘playing Russian roulette with your life, or your child's life’ [52]. In a letter to the editor published by the Aiken Standard, one individual wrote: If one Google searches the vaccine adverse effects – or VAERS – of the HPV, one can read the thousands of vaccine injury reports, including those young children who are permanently damaged and over a hundred who have died as a direct result of receiving it. The vaccine has never been properly tested for safety. [53]In response to these types of news stories, Cervical Cancer-Free South Carolina (CCFSC) posted on their Facebook page: Misinformation on HPV vaccination leads to an uninformed and misinformed public … HPV vaccination has been shown to be as safe (if not safer) than other recommended childhood and adolescent vaccines as well as very efficacious. We must not let misinformation dominate public discourse. [54]