Medical responsibility definition

Medical responsibility means a responsibility attributed to a medical doctor or a dentist regarding the various aspects of individual medical exposures: justification, optimisation, clinical evaluation of the outcome, co-operation with other medical specialists in obtaining and providing information, giving the persons exposed information on the need and the risks of each exposure.

Examples of Medical responsibility in a sentence

  • Medical responsibility rests with the patients GP (or Devon Doctors OOH), consequently the patients GP should be kept informed as to the progress of the intervention.