The paper discusses the issue of justifiability and practical value of deciding between a medical complication and a medical error, the subject which has recently been frequently debated among doctors, at court trials and in media. The authors clearly define the meaning of the terms of medical complication and medical error, pointing out that they belong to an entirely different class of terms ...

Error in medicine is a subject of continuing interest among physicians, patients, policymakers, and the general public. This article examines the issue of disclosure of medical errors in the context of emergency medicine. It reviews the concept of medical error; proposes the professional duty of truthfulness as a justification for error disclosure; examines barriers to error disclosure posed by...

BACKGROUND Legislative measures have been identified as one effective way of changing attitude or behaviour towards health care. The aim of this study was to describe trends in patients' complaints for medical issues; to evaluate the contribution of a law regarding patients' rights, and to identify factors associated to patients' perception of a medical error. METHODS Patients with a complain...

OBJECTIVE Propose a cognitive taxonomy of medical errors at the level of individuals and their interactions with technology. DESIGN Use cognitive theories of human error and human action to develop the theoretical foundations of the taxonomy, develop the structure of the taxonomy, populate the taxonomy with examples of medical error cases, identify cognitive mechanisms for each category of me...

in the past, medical device design always was performed with medical engineers, technicians and physicians in all design stages and the industrial design role was pale in this field. today the industrial design responsibilities in designing of these devices are considered increasingly. the industrial design role in medical device design was investigated in two fields. first are aesthetic and it...