Background: Medical malpractice is a serious problem in the health care system. This study aimed to review the medical negligence in Iran. Methods: Based on the PRISMA checklist, a search for scientific records was done separately by two researchers. All the articles that had selection criteria were evaluated in terms of methodological quality. Medical malpractice was assessed in four main div...

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This study aims to analyze the legal consequences arising from occurrence of Post Immunization Adverse Events (KIPI) in implementation complete basic immunization Banten Province. type research uses a normative juridical approach. Based on results study, it is known that AEFI immunization, both those who practice outside their authority and if an error occurs due negligence can be subject "disc...

Bipolar Affective Disorder (BAD) is a chronic disease and requires medication treatment. This study verified the adherence of people with BAD to medication and compared, among adherent and non-adherent patients, satisfaction with the health team and treatment. Twenty-one patients with BAD receiving care in a mental health unit participated in the study. The Morisky-Green test and another instru...

In the years since the original Tarasoff cases created a new duty for psychotherapists toward third parties harmed by patients' violence, a series of cases nationwide--so called "driving cases"--have applied Tarasoff-like reasoning to situations where a patient injured others while driving a car. Our thesis in this paper is that such application is inappropriate since it represents an unjustifi...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined whether physicians' use of computerized decision aids affects patient satisfaction and/or blame for medical outcomes. METHOD Experiment 1: Fifty-nine undergraduates read about a doctor who made either a correct or incorrect diagnosis and either used a decision aid or did not. All rated the quality of the doctor's decision and the likelihood of recommending the d...