An Ethics Guide has been added to each chapter. The Guides contain ethical principles and discussion questions relevant to the material covered in each chapter.
Chapter 7, "Privacy Law and HIPAA." is new content. This chapter can inform all allied health personnel as to the relevance and mandates of HIPAA.
All statistics have been updated; content relevant to laws passed since the third edition, court cases, and lists in the appendices.
New case studies have been added to each chapter.
We eliminated many of the sidebars found in the third edition by incorporating their content into the narrative of each chapter, or by deleting the material entirely. Reviewers have reported almost unanimously that this is an improvement over previous editions of the book.
We added a coauthor, Dr. Carlene Harrison, whose expertise as Director of Allied Health Education at International College in Florida is invaluable.
We have made an effort to include many allied health professions in case studies and other examples throughout the text, even more so than in previous editions of the book.
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