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Doctor as criminal: reporting of patient deaths to the police and criminal prosecution of healthcare providers in Japan

BACKGROUND: In Japan, medical error leading to patient death is often handled through the criminal rather than civil justice system. However, the number of cases handled through the criminal system and how this has changed in recent years has not previously been described. Our aim was to determine t...

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Autores principales: Starkey, L Jay, Maeda, Shoichi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20187954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-53