نتایج جستجو برای: medical liability
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Revealing medical secrets is one of the most important topics in medical law, and has an ancient root in medical history and morality. Keeping patients' secrets is one of the certain laws in internal and international laws and regulations of the most countries that have been recognized in patients' bill of rights. Keeping patients' secrets causes patients to confide in physicians and refer to t...
Policymakers and the public are concerned about the role of medical malpractice liability in the rising cost of medical care. We use variation in the generosity of local juries to identify the causal impact of malpractice liability on medical costs, mortality, and social welfare. The effect of malpractice on medical costs is large relative to its share of medical expenditures, but relatively mo...
BACKGROUND In medical malpractice litigations in recent years in Japan, it is notable that the growing number of medical litigation cases includes the issue of a doctor's explanation to the patient as a pivotal point. The objective of this study was to identify factors of physicians' communication skills with patients, as related to their legal liability, and differences in doctors' communicati...
The era of personalized medicine is approaching – more slowly than many originally predicted, but nevertheless advancing in fits and starts [1]. The central concept of personalized medicine is sound – healthcare can potentially be more effective and efficient if it is personalized by targeting the genetic or molecular profile of individual patients rather than applying the traditional ‘one-size...
This issue's "Legal Briefing" column covers recent legal developments involving informed consent.1 We covered this topic in previous articles in The Journal of Clinical Ethics.2 But an updated discussion is warranted. First, informed consent remains a central and critically important issue in clinical ethics. Second, there have been numerous significant legal changes over the past year. We cate...
Medical Professional Liability Claims Related to Esophageal Cancer Screening Endoscopic screening for esophageal adenocarcinoma has been recommended for patients with chronic symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease, but only if they have additional risk factors.1-3 Surveys of gastroenterologists indicate that concern about litigation for missing a cancer may drive endoscopy use in patients ...
Medical liability reform has maintained a tenacious hold on the national policy agenda. During the first several years of the 21st century, a malpractice insurance “crisis” prompted vociferous demands by organized medicine and liability insurers for tort reforms to curb litigation costs.1 Many observers anticipated that once the insurance market calmed, so too would calls for reform. Instead, a...
Liability law allocates the costs of accidents among individuals. Accidental injuries are frequent in modern society. One car rear-ends another, damaging property and causing personal injury; a soda pop bottle explodes, injuring a consumer; a physician misdiagnoses a patient’s illness, resulting in medical complications when the illness is ultimately treated. Liability law has two principal goa...
One of the new technologies of genetic science is pre-natal diagnostic tests to prevent the birth of children with congenital malformations. Physicians and genetic counselors as real person and laboratories and medical centers as legal person in the negligeecs in the case of patients will be laibel. What is important about the physician's liability and health centers due to a negligence in pren...
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