A medical error leads to tragedy: how do we inform the patient?

Steven J. Baumrucker

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A medical error leads to tragedy: how do we inform the patient?

December 22, 2010

Baumrucker SJ. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2006;23(5):417-21.

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This roundtable discussion provides legal, ethical, nursing, and medical perspectives on whether to disclose a misdiagnosis to the patient and their family after cancer has metastasized and death is imminent.

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