US: hospital negligent for failing to warn prior patient of risk of HIV infection by transfusion.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has ruled that a university hospital was negligent for not contacting patients who had received blood transfusions in the early 1980s to advise them of the risk of HIV infection. In Amos v Vanderbilt University, it awarded US$4.3 million in damages to the estate and family of a woman who died eight years after receiving HIV-tainted blood during surgery.
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D017007:Duty to Warn / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012307:Risk Factors; D065227:Transfusion Reaction; D014481:United States