Background: Never events (NEs) are patient safety incidents that are preventable and so serious they should never happen. To reduce NEs, several frameworks have been introduced over the past two decades; however, NEs and their harms continue to occur. These frameworks have varying events, terminology and preventability, which hinders collaboration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: A never event is the most egregious of patient safety incidents. It refers to events that should theoretically never happen, such amputating the wrong limb. The term "never event" is used around the world by a variety of medical and patient safety organizations and is synonymous with sentinel events and serious reportable events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Available literature exploring medical liability and postgraduate medical education consistently posits that postgraduate trainees worry about their exposure to medico-legal liability. This assumption has formed the basis for research and curriculum development.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the encounters that lead physicians-in-training to seek external medico-legal guidance.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeg Aspects Med Pract
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