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    "pk": 38452,
    "title": "Medical and Legal Risks in Tibial Plateau Fractures",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "<p><strong>Introduction</strong>: Tibial plateau fractures, which comprise about 1% of all fractures, can be challenging to diagnose in the emergency department setting. Missed and delayed diagnoses can result in poor outcomes for patients and legal risks for clinicians, necessitating a high level of vigilance.</p>\n<p><strong>Case Series: </strong>In this article we review three malpractice cases related to tibial plateau fractures. Key issues included missed or delayed diagnosis, mismanagement of associated complications, inadequate discharge instructions, and lack of documentation.</p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion</strong>: Tibial plateau fractures can be challenging to identify, heightening the risk of downstream complications. As a result, emergency physicians must remain vigilant in assessing patients who are at increased risk for these injuries and document their efforts to both evaluate for and communicate these risks to patients.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "tibial plateau"
        },
        {
            "word": "Malpractice"
        },
        {
            "word": "liability"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Medical Legal Case Report",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gv4q8w1",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Rachel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lindor",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Mayo Clinic, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rochester, MN",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Summer",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ghaith",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Phoenix, AZ",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Newberry",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford Health Care, Department of Emergency Medicine, Palo Alto, CA",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Aaron",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Thomas",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Mayo Clinic, Department of Emergency Medicine, Phoenix, AZ",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2024-10-28T19:01:44.144000Z",
    "date_accepted": "2025-03-11T18:25:10.241000Z",
    "date_published": "2025-07-15T03:29:00Z",
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