[What we can learn from a case of medical malpractice--a patient hospitalized to improve overall condition attempted suicide by jumping off a 4-story building in the middle of the night, but the defendant hospital was denied negligence of inpatient management]

Nihon Geka Gakkai Zasshi. 2014 Sep;115(5):281-2.

[Article in Japanese]

Authors

Atsushi Kajitani¹, Mayumi Asada, Hiroshi Iwai, Hiromichi Kuwabara, Shiori Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Hospital Management, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 25549439

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Depression / psychology*
Female
Hospitalization / legislation & jurisprudence*
Humans
Inpatients / legislation & jurisprudence*
Japan
Legislation, Hospital*
Malpractice / legislation & jurisprudence*
Patient Care Management / legislation & jurisprudence*
Suicide / legislation & jurisprudence*
Suicide Prevention*
Suicide, Attempted / legislation & jurisprudence*