Lex Maria
{{Short description|Mandatory reporting requirement in Sweden}}
Lex Maria is the colloquial name for the mandatory reporting in Chapter 3 Paragraph 5 of the Swedish Patient Safety Law (Patientsäkerhetslagen). The law requires that a care taker report to the Health and Social Care Inspectorate events that could have caused or have caused serious injury to the patient.{{Cite web|url=http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/lexmaria|title=Lex Maria|website=www.socialstyrelsen.se|publisher=National Board of Health and Welfare (Sweden)|language=sv|access-date=2016-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605195137/http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/lexmaria|archive-date=2016-06-05|url-status=dead}} The name originates from an incident in 1936 when four patients at Maria hospital in Stockholm died after being injected with disinfectant (mercury oxycyanide) instead of anesthetic.{{Cite news|url=https://lakartidningen.se/wp-content/uploads/OldPdfFiles/2005/29711.pdf|title=Fyra dödande injektioner ledde fram till Lex Maria|last=Wennergren|first=Göran|date=2005|newspaper=Läkartidningen|language=sv|trans-title=Four fatal injections led to Lex Maria|access-date=5 June 2016}}