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D E Willett

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PubMed1989

State access to peer review records: a clash of public policy.

Hospital peer review is a process that promotes important public objectives, yet is frequently under attack by persons pursuing private interests. An additional threat to this process has arisen from an unlikely source: state hospital licensing authorities. In this article, the authors discuss the conflict between state laws requiring access to peer review records and the need for confidentiality of such records.

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PubMed1989

The duty to warn about transfusion risks.

Blood banks and transfusion services should anticipate that patients contracting transfusion-transmitted diseases will claim that these facilities have a duty to warn or notify patients of potential transfusion risks. Although physicians treating patients must secure informed consent by describing significant risks and possible alternatives, precedent does not support extending informed consent requirements to the hospital or blood bank. Nonetheless, efforts to find new sources of compensation may cause judges to develop new theories of liability. Blood bank and transfusion service medical directors, therefore, are advised to provide clinicians with information regarding current or emerging transfusion risks and alternatives such as autologous transfusion, urging communication to patients when informed consent is obtained.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗