Commentary on duty of candour and cancer screening
Autor: | Rosalind Given-Wilson |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Screening test
The role of imaging in screening special feature: Commentary media_common.quotation_subject Breast Neoplasms Legislation 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences Breast cancer screening 0302 clinical medicine Cancer screening Humans Mass Screening Relevance (law) Medicine Ethics Medical Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Diagnostic Errors Duty Early Detection of Cancer media_common medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease Harm England 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Female Medical emergency business Healthcare providers Mammography |
Zdroj: | The British Journal of Radiology. 91:20170451 |
ISSN: | 1748-880X 0007-1285 |
DOI: | 10.1259/bjr.20170451 |
Popis: | English law mandates a duty of candour (DOC) for all healthcare providers. They must be open and honest when something goes wrong with care causing harm. Providers must apologize to those affected and investigate what happened. Screening is not 100% accurate and false positive and false negative results are inevitable. Guidance on DOC assists providers to judge when something has gone wrong in screening and the DOC legislation applies. DOC guidance helps distinguish such incidents from harms that are an expected and inevitable consequence of the imperfections of screening tests. For breast cancer screening the classification of interval cancers has been updated to take account of DOC. This guidance on DOC and classification of prior films of those presenting with interval cancers has relevance to other areas of diagnostic imaging. Review of prior examinations after a significant diagnosis has been made may reveal a previously overlooked abnormality. |
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