Open AccessExploring Risk, Antecedents and Human Costs of Living with a Retained Surgical Item: A Narrative Synthesis of Australian Case Law 1981–2018
Author(s) -
Sonya Osborne,
Tina Cockburn,
Juliet Davis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1178-2390
DOI - 10.2147/jmdh.s316166
Subject(s) - tribunal , appeal , medicine , commission , agency (philosophy) , psychosocial , narrative , thematic analysis , law , political science , psychiatry , qualitative research , sociology , social science , linguistics , philosophy
This study aimed to critically examine the circumstances contributing to, and the human costs arising from, the retention of surgical items through the lens of Australian case law.