Medical error disclosure and patient safety: legal aspects

Medical error disclosure and patient safety: legal aspects

<p>Reducing the number of preventable adverse events has become a public health issue. The paper discusses in which ways the law can contribute to that goal, especially by encouraging a culture of safety among healthcare professionals. It assesses the need or the usefulness to pass so-called &...

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Main Author: Olivier Guillod
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Public Health Research
Subjects:
medical errors, disclosure, legal aspects
Online Access:http://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/244
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spelling doaj-3b7b25116f0941098fef91618d0c775d2020-11-25T00:43:25ZengPAGEPress PublicationsJournal of Public Health Research2279-90282279-90362013-12-0123e31e3110.4081/jphr.2013.e3174Medical error disclosure and patient safety: legal aspectsOlivier Guillod0Institute of Health Law, University of Neuchâtel<p>Reducing the number of preventable adverse events has become a public health issue. The paper discusses in which ways the law can contribute to that goal, especially by encouraging a culture of safety among healthcare professionals. It assesses the need or the usefulness to pass so-called <em>disclosure laws </em>and <em>apology laws</em>, to adopt mandatory but strictly confidential Critical Incidents Reporting Systems in hospitals, to change the fault-based system of medical liability or to amend the rules on criminal liability. The paper eventually calls for adding the law to the present agenda of patient safety.</p>http://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/244medical errors, disclosure, legal aspects
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title_short Medical error disclosure and patient safety: legal aspects
title_full Medical error disclosure and patient safety: legal aspects
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title_full_unstemmed Medical error disclosure and patient safety: legal aspects
title_sort medical error disclosure and patient safety: legal aspects
publisher PAGEPress Publications
series Journal of Public Health Research
issn 2279-9028
2279-9036
publishDate 2013-12-01
description <p>Reducing the number of preventable adverse events has become a public health issue. The paper discusses in which ways the law can contribute to that goal, especially by encouraging a culture of safety among healthcare professionals. It assesses the need or the usefulness to pass so-called <em>disclosure laws </em>and <em>apology laws</em>, to adopt mandatory but strictly confidential Critical Incidents Reporting Systems in hospitals, to change the fault-based system of medical liability or to amend the rules on criminal liability. The paper eventually calls for adding the law to the present agenda of patient safety.</p>
topic medical errors, disclosure, legal aspects
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