This Article examines the legal status of hospital committee proceedings and reports, focusing on how they may be used in a medicolegal context. Specific topics dealt with include the hospital medical staff in legal perspective, the concept of institutional responsibility, liability considerations arising from committee work, and the discovery and admissibility of committee records in litigation cases. The author concludes that the danger of committee members facing liability for their activities is slight and that the fear that these reports and proceedings may be subject to discovery or be admissible into evidence in subsequent litigation is remote because candid and conscientious evaluations of clinical practices within every institution are essential and, therefore, public policy must encourage such evaluations by maintaining the confidentiality of committee activities.

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医院委员会的诉讼和报告：他们的法律地位

本文研究了医院委员会程序和报告的法律地位，重点关注如何在法医背景下使用它们。涉及的具体主题包括法律视角下的医院医务人员、机构责任的概念、委员会工作产生的责任考虑以及诉讼案件中委员会记录的发现和可采性。作者得出的结论是，委员会成员对其活动承担责任的危险很小，并且担心这些报告和程序可能会在随后的诉讼中被发现或被采纳为证据的担忧是微不足道的，因为每个人都对临床实践进行了坦诚和认真的评估。机构是必不可少的，因此，