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Is consent required for publication of medical errors?
Weisbaum K, Hyland S, Bernstein M. Healthcare Q. 2005;8:66-69.

The authors argue that, under certain conditions, publication of patient information without consent can be justified for the purposes of learning from medical errors.
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