INTRODUCTION With the introduction of antiretroviral drugs HIV-infected children live longer. Disclosure of HIV diagnosis is increasingly an important and inevitable issue. Both healthcare providers and caregivers face challenges of disclosure to children. The objective of the study was to explore factors associated with HIV-status disclosure to HIV-infected children receiving care at Kilimanja...

RATIONALE This study investigates the intrapersonal and interpersonal factors and processes that are associated with patient forgiveness of a provider in the aftermath of a harmful medical error. OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine what antecedents are most predictive of patient forgiveness and non-forgiveness, and the extent to which social-cognitive factors (i.e., fault attributions, empat...

CONTEXT The Institute of Medicine has recommended establishing mandatory error reporting systems for hospitals and other health settings. OBJECTIVE To examine the opinions and experiences of hospital leaders with state reporting systems. DESIGN AND SETTING Survey of chief executive and chief operating officers (CEOs/COOs) from randomly selected hospitals in 2 states with mandatory reporting...

Reducing the number of preventable adverse events has become a public health issue. The paper discusses in which ways the law can contribute to that goal, especially by encouraging a culture of safety among healthcare professionals. It assesses the need or the usefulness to pass so-called disclosure laws and apology laws, to adopt mandatory but strictly confidential Critical Incidents Reporting...

The aim of this research was to determine the impact of voluntary information disclosure on informational content of share price. In this regard, future earnings response coefficient was used to determine the informational content of the share price about the future income information. Furthermore, share price synchronicity was used to evaluate the informational content of the share price about...

for goal of transparency, listed companies are required to disclose their significant events, quarterly reports and the decisions taken in their general meetings. of course, when the dissemination of information might prejudice a company’s interests, it can withhold the disclosure on condition that it keeps the information confidential. this article, by using american and english experiences, s...