Practice guidelines are standardized specifications for managing particular clinical problems and are intended to improve the outcomes of medical care by increasing adherence to standards of care. They are also meant to make medicine more cost-effective by eliminating unnecessary procedures. A relatively recent phenomenon, the practice guidelines now emerging will have implications for malpract...

Most of the time, a patient chooses doctor or hospital based on their reputation. Patients have two main anticipations medical individuals and organizations: first, that they'll treat them with utmost skill knowledge, second, they won't hurt through inattention, recklessness, recklessness. Even if can't save persons life, he still has duty to do what's best for person who put trust in him by go...

As medical negligence has become a public concern today, there is an increasing number of claims which commonly settled through litigation. However, numerous problems regarding the practice litigation have been discovered. Hence, research aims to examine current dispute resolution in Malaysia find better solution for it. The findings show that are weaknesses existing and found mediation as alte...

The healthcare system in Nigeria has recorded unimaginable and unsatisfactory performance quality health care delivery. There is need to promote the awareness of medical negligence due fact that at some point life, one fallen victim negligence, but as a result ignorance it was swept under carpet. Medical not synonymous with doctors only extends nurses, laboratory scientists, technicians other p...

Delayed diagnosis of breast cancer forms a substantial part of medical litigation and may sometimes result from communication failure in the multidisciplinary team. Review of such cases may result in improved patient pathways as a result of lessons learned. There is evidence that delay may significantly worsen prognosis. For a claimant to successfully pursue a case it is necessary for the medic...

The medical malpractice system in the United States is designed to both compensate and to deter medically induced injury. It performs these functions through the civil justice system, which allows individuals to seek redress for injury caused by medical negligence (improper or substandard medical care), and the liability insurance industry, which charges premiums to providers in exchange for fi...

T he last two articles published in the Medicolegal Sidebar addressed the complex interplay between the law and social values [1, 2]. Sometimes, court decisions may appear to be arbitrary and unfair to the medical profession, but a deeper examination of judicial rulings can show the practical tensions that courts sometimes face in adjudicating medical malpractice claims. We previously addressed...

Wrongful birth actions aim to compensate litigants who are negligently deprived by health professionals of their right to reproductive choice. Access to safe and legal abortion is integral to the action and wrongful birth claims in the United Kingdom have been facilitated by the Abortion Act 1967 (as amended). The recent Australian case CES v Superclinics (1995) 38 NSWLR 47 shows how judicial c...