DOCTOR AS CRIMINAL: REPORTING OF PATIENT DEATHS TO THE POLICE AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS IN JAPAN

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

Abstract 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 previously been described.Our aim was to determine the trend in reports of patient death to the

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Shaping Quality of Life with Nursing Assistance. A Grounded Theory Approach to Nursing Care for People with Physical Disabilities and Interactions with Carers in Long-Term Care

Context: Although the number of people with physical disabilities who need nursing support is increasing, there is a lack of empirical knowledge about how they experience necessary care support.This knowledge is a prerequisite for enabling self-determination in the provision of care and for providing care based on needs and requirements.People with

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Transcriptomics analysis and hormonal changes of male and female neonatal rats treated chronically with a low dose of acrylamide in their drinking water

Acrylamide is known to produce follicular cell tumors of the thyroid in rats.RccHan Wistar rats were exposed in utero to a carcinogenic dose of acrylamide (3 mg/Kg bw/day) from gestation day 6 to delivery and then through their drinking water to postnatal day 35.In order to identify potential mechanisms of carcinogenesis in the thyroid glands, we u

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Ontological Foundation for Representing Metaphors as Part of LOD

The main goal of this study was to PEPPERMINT SOAP lay the foundation for the representation of written metaphors as Linked Open Data (LOD) on the Semantic Web (SW).To achieve this goal, this study proposed concepts and properties that allow metaphors from different domains to be linked.The use of the proposed formalism was illustrated through a ca

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