Is medical error a crime? The impact of the State v. Vaught on patient safety

James S Barry¹, Jonathan R Swanson², Stephen A Pearlman^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, NICU Medical Director, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, Chief Quality Officer for Children's Services, University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
³ Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. spearlman@christianacare.org.
⁴ ChristianaCare, Clinical Effectiveness Officer, Newark, DE, USA. spearlman@christianacare.org.

Review

James S Barry et al. J Perinatol. 2022 Sep.

. 2022 Sep;42(9):1271-1274.

doi: 10.1038/s41372-022-01481-8. Epub 2022 Aug 5.

James S Barry¹, Jonathan R Swanson², Stephen A Pearlman^{3

4}

¹ Department of Pediatrics, NICU Medical Director, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, Chief Quality Officer for Children's Services, University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
³ Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. spearlman@christianacare.org.
⁴ ChristianaCare, Clinical Effectiveness Officer, Newark, DE, USA. spearlman@christianacare.org.

No abstract available

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