{"title":"Medicolegal pitfalls of prescribing hormone replacement therapy.","authors":"Gerard Panting","doi":"10.1258/136218006775997225","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prescribing of hormone replacement therapy can give rise to clinical negligence, just like any other area of medical practice -- keeping up to date, ensuring patients are properly informed and so able to consent, and avoiding prescribing pitfalls are the keys to successful risk management. Ultimately, good practice is defensible practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":85745,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the British Menopause Society","volume":"12 1","pages":"34-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1258/136218006775997225","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The journal of the British Menopause Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1258/136218006775997225","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The prescribing of hormone replacement therapy can give rise to clinical negligence, just like any other area of medical practice -- keeping up to date, ensuring patients are properly informed and so able to consent, and avoiding prescribing pitfalls are the keys to successful risk management. Ultimately, good practice is defensible practice.