Attitudes regarding reporting healthcare-associated patient deaths to the police: A nationwide survey of physicians and RMs in Japanese teaching hospitals

Legal Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 296-299

  Maeda, Shoichi ^a   Kamishiraki, Etsuko ^b   Starkey, Jay ^c   Ikeda, Noriaki ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Article 21 of the Medical Practitioner's Law; Healthcare related death; Medical malpractice; Nationwide survey; Reporting to the police

Indexed keywords

ACT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; JAPANESE; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MANAGER; MEDICAL ERROR; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK MANAGER; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; POLICE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77957270884     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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