Patient safety is a medical ethics issue that must be addressed through health care teams’ open communication as well as through time-outs and checklists.
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We must try to understand why there is such certainty about poor prognosis in severe brain-injury cases, when in fact many patients recover, albeit to a level of function most of us would not desire.