Health Care Providers’ Legal Duty to Be Open and Honest with Patients
Duties of candor require that patients be informed of adverse events as soon as possible after they occur.
Medical Safety
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Despite being both feasible and effective, alternatives to police intervention for behavioral health crises remain the exception, rather than the rule.
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To save lives and improve individual and community outcomes, supervised injection sites should be part of the response to the opioid epidemic.
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Recently it was announced that the British government will review our tort-based clinical negligence system.
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We must look beyond the words, “Never Events,” beyond that label, to ascertain the true meaning of the term.
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In the waning days of the Trump administration, a final push was made to fundamentally weaken regulation of medical devices.
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Failures of maternity care services have presented an acute patient safety issue in some parts of England in 2020.
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Many patient safety adverse events across the National Health Service (NHS) in England have common causes, which exist regardless of clinical specialty.
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A recent publication by the WHO seems to have rekindled conversations about the “inevitability of error” in the field of patient safety.
