Law. Human. Environment

To the issue of tort liability of medical staff in the patient safety system in Ukraine and the world

I.V. Horislavska
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Abstract

The article is analyzed specific issues regarding the legal regulation of health care liability; the delineation of contractual and tort liability of medical professionals is justified. Installed particular qualities of medical staff responsibility in Ukraine, the European Union and the United States by analysis of regulatory legal acts of health legislation, judicial practice, the positions of the leading scientists in the medical and legal field. The categories are disclosed: «medical (medical) error», «negligence», «incident» and medical statistics examined. Analyzed the opportunities and ways to unify the norms of national legislation with relevant standards of the World Health Organization in particular due to work on an international classification of basic concepts in the field of patient safety.

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responsibility of medical staff, tort liability, medical error, patient safety system

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I.V. Horislavska (2019). To the issue of tort liability of medical staff in the patient safety system in Ukraine and the world. Law. Human. Environment, 10(4), 106-114. https://doi.org/10.31548/law2019.04.012
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