title: [Judicial liability and blood transfusion--equity, opportunity?].
abstract: Blood transfusion centres are regularly sentenced to compensate for damages caused to individuals contaminated following a transfusion. Some blood transfusion centre directors and certain senior civil servants of the Health Ministry were sentenced by the repressive courts. This article explains how these solutions are not innovative and only result from the application of the rules of common law to transfusion activity. The author tries to assess the opportunity and equity of this.
authors.affiliation: CNRS URA 1471, Paris.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hermitte
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D065227:Transfusion Reaction