Historically, fear of malpractice litigation made clinicians cautious about informing patients
when they made mistakes in their care. This article reviews recent efforts by regulators …

Purpose Adverse events are increasingly recognized as a source of harm to patients. When
such harm occurs, problems arise in communicating the situation to patients and their …

Background: Since 2001, the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) has fully
disclosed and offered compensation to patients for medical errors. Objective: To compare …

Context: Public health law has received considerable attention in recent years and has
become an essential field in public health. Public health law research, however, has …

One way in which physicians can respond to a medical error is to apologize. Apologies—
statements that acknowledge an error and its consequences, take responsibility, and …

Objectives To investigate patients' and family members' perceptions and experiences of
disclosure of healthcare incidents and to derive principles of effective disclosure. Design …

Vaccines are so far proven to be safe, although related adverse events cannot be excluded.
The urgency for COVID-19 vaccines determined a dilution of the general expectations of …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND There is consensus that patients should be told if they are
injured by medical care. However, there is little information on how they react to different …

This paper evaluates the impact of six different types of tort reforms on the frequency, size,
and number of total annual settlements in medical malpractice cases between 1991 and …

Objective To explore patients' and family members' perceptions of Open Disclosure of
adverse events that occurred during their health care. Design We interviewed 23 people …