| Clinical negligence and duty of candour. | |
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PMID: 20932611 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The Department of Health is considering imposing a legal duty of candour on health care providers to ensure that an apology and explanation are given to patients when errors occur during medical treatment. This aims to improve quality of care and reduce adverse events during medical treatment. We present the current system of clinical negligence and the future of medical ethics. We discuss relevant cases with regard to duty of candour, and highlight the existence of serious imbalances in which patients' rights and corresponding ethical duties of professionals predominate over the responsibilities of patients themselves. It is known that most adverse events arise because of multiple factors for which no individual should be blamed. To improve healthcare services there is a need for a system in which lessons can be learnt from mistakes, and services can be improved in the interest of patient safety, and for transparency in the broad principles on which the decisions are based within which clinical performance is supervised and monitored. |
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Vinita Shekar; Mark Singh; Kishore Shekar; Peter Brennan |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-10-06 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery Volume: 49 ISSN: 1532-1940 ISO Abbreviation: Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg Publication Date: 2011 Dec |
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Created Date: 2011-11-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8405235 Medline TA: Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg Country: Scotland |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 593-6 Citation Subset: D; IM |
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Copyright © 2010 The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth PO6 3LY, United Kingdom. |
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