Legal disputes over duties to disclose treatment risks to patients: a review of negligence claims and complaints in Australia.
retrospective_cohort · Level III
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 22879818.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001283 and PMC identifier 3413715.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
David Studdert and colleagues identified disputes over informed consent among malpractice claims and serious health care complaints in Australia and provide an analysis of disagreements between patients and doctors over whether particular clinical risks should have been disclosed before treatment.
Medical subject headings
- Disclosure
- Dissent and Disputes
- Malpractice
- Treatment Outcome