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Medical Error Disclosure and Patient Safety: Legal Aspects

Author(s) -

Olivier Guillod

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.579

H-Index - 13

ISSN - 2279-9028

DOI - 10.4081/jphr.2013.e31

Subject(s) - confidentiality , liability , patient safety , business , health professionals , health care , law , public relations , political science

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 disclosure laws and apology laws, 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.

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