Expert Testimony - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Symptom and complaint validation of chronic pain in social medical evaluation. Part I: Terminological and methodological approaches]

30 May 2009 Chronic pain accompanied by disability and handicap is a frequent symptom necessitating medical assessment. Current guidelines for the assessment of malingering suggest discrimination between explanatory demonstration, aggravation and simulation. ... Read more...

[Symptom and complaint validation of chronic pain in social medical evaluation. Part II: Analysis levels and assessment recommendations]

30 May 2009 Strategies for validating complaints about pain and pain-related disability are considered important in the assessment of persons with chronic pain. Validation strategies should be based on principles of psychological assessment. In order to limit ... Read more...

Reliability of psychiatric evidence in serious criminal matters: fitness to stand trial and the defence of mental illness.

29 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVE: The criminal justice system relies on the opinions of expert witness to assist in decisions about fitness to stand trial (FST) and verdicts of not guilty by reason of mental illness (NGMI). The aim of the present study was to assess the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Expert Testimony - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Expert witness qualifications and ethical guidelines for issues related to emergency medical services litigation: approved by the NAEMSP Board of Directors January 2008. 29 Jun 2009
• Margaritas... not science. 30 May 2009
• [Symptom and complaint validation of chronic pain in social medical evaluation. Part I: Terminological and methodological approaches] 30 May 2009
• [Symptom and complaint validation of chronic pain in social medical evaluation. Part II: Analysis levels and assessment recommendations] 30 May 2009
• Reliability of psychiatric evidence in serious criminal matters: fitness to stand trial and the defence of mental illness. 29 Apr 2009
• When scientific data become legal evidence. 15 Apr 2009
• Contemporaneous assessment of testamentary capacity. 25 Mar 2009
• [Judicial murders and forensic specialists' disclaim of responsibility] 24 Mar 2009
• Manipulability of comparative tests. 14 Mar 2009
• Best practice guidelines for forensic neuropsychological examinations of patients with traumatic brain injury. 27 Feb 2009
• [Neurological expert opinion in occupational disability insurance] 14 Feb 2009
• [The lawyers' crusade against an invented reality] 16 Dec 2008
• The impact of the Daubert case on modern litigation. 29 Nov 2008
• Conditional approval: discussion points from the PSI conditional approval expert group. 29 Sep 2008
• [Life-threatening conditions: medico-legal opinions in the materials from the Congress of Forensic Medicine, Krakow, 11-12 September, 2006] 29 Sep 2008
• Experts opinion about system of the performance evaluation criteria weighted per positons in the water polo game. 30 Aug 2008
• A thought on liability and reliability. 30 Aug 2008
• Education in forensic psychiatry. 30 Aug 2008
• [The role of the Medical Scientific Council's Forensic Committee in the consent judgments regarding private insurance companies] Aug 2008
• [Disease--defence--manipulation: the difficulties in providing forensic-psychiatry opinions] 29 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Expert Testimony'

Definition: Presentation of pertinent data by one with special skill or knowledge representing mastery of a particular subject.

Descriptor UI: D005104

Alternative terms: Expert Testimony; Expert Testimonies; Testimony, Expert; Expert Witness; Expert Witnesses; Witness, Expert; Witnesses, Expert; Expert Opinion; Expert Opinions; Opinion, Expert;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; standards; trends; utilization;

Tree Number: I01.880.604.583.232; N03.706.535.253;

History Note: 66