Institutional Responses to Medical Mistakes: Ethical and Legal Perspectives
, Health care institutions must decide whether to inform the patient of a medical error. The barriers to disclosure are an aversion to admitting errors, a concern about implicating other practitioners, and a fear of lawsuits and liability. However, admission of medical errors is the ethical thing to...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2001
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Year: 2001, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 147-156 |
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