title: Informing the patient on medical liability: what can we do?
abstract: According to William Shakespeare "the purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay". Well, if hospitals used to be proud of their "spotless reputation", those days are over if we look at the growing number of complaints and cases related to medical mistakes. We will not discuss here the reasons that explain this growth, or the strategy followed in the fields of risk management and coping with the patient safety, but an interesting way to limit the financial consequences for hospitals: mediation.
authors: French Hospital Federation, France.
authors: Cédric
authors: C
authors: Lussiez
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D019300:Medical Errors; D017008:Negotiating; D012308:Risk Management; D014342:Truth Disclosure