Patient organisations should also establish databanks on medical complications
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Patient organisations should also establish databanks on medical complications.
In 1998 a lawyer working for the Dutch consumer organisation, Consumentenbond, suggested that hospitals, like hotels, should be classified according to the quality of service they provide. For the establishment of such a register it would of course be necessary to determine various parameters, including the incidence of complications occurring in each hospital. It did not take long before this ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.29.2.115