title: Disclosure of medical errors involving gametes and embryos: an Ethics Committee opinion.
abstract: Medical providers have an ethical duty to disclose clinically significant errors involving gametes and embryos as soon as they are discovered. Clinics also should have written policies in place for reducing and disclosing errors. This document was reviewed and affirmed in 2015 and replaces the earlier document of the same name (Fertil Steril 2011;96:1312-4).
authors.affiliation: American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama.
mesh_terms: D019924:Embryo Disposition / Q000941:ethics; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D017041:Ethics Committees; D005854:Germ Cells; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000941:ethics*; D000067491:Near Miss, Healthcare / Q000941:ethics; D011050:Policy Making; D018456:Reproductive Medicine / Q000941:ethics*; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000941:ethics*; D014342:Truth Disclosure / Q000941:ethics*