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

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.