Doctor as criminal: reporting of patient deaths to the police and criminal prosecution of healthcare providers in Japan

Autor: L Jay Starkey, Shoichi Maeda

Publikováno v: BMC Health Services Research, Vol 10, Iss 1, p 53 (2010)
Starkey, L Jay; & Maeda, Shoichi. (2010). Doctor as criminal: reporting of patient deaths to the police and criminal prosecution of healthcare providers in Japan. BMC Health Services Research, 10(1), 53. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-53. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6mq0f48c
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Background In Japan, medical error leading to patient death is often handled through the criminal rather than civil justice system. However, the number of cases handled through the criminal system and how this has changed in recent years has not prev

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The Rule of Law in Japan : A Comparative Analysis

Autor: Carl F. Goodman

Practitioners who deal with Japanese law have put great store by earlier editions of this major work, which systematically compares United States (US) law and Japanese law across all the major fields of legal practice. This fourth revised edition upd