lex Maria

Etymology
Compound of. From the name of hospital where four patients died after accidentally being injected with disinfectant in 1936.

Noun

 * 1)  The  term for a specific law; which states that a health care provider has notification obligation towards the Health and Social Care Inspectorate when they have caused, or risked causing, injury of a patient.

Usage notes

 * Currently, as of March 2022, refers to the Swedish law 3 kap 5 § Patientsäkerhetslagen ("Chapter 3 Paragraph 5 of the Swedish Patient Safety Law").
 * Until 2011 it previously referred to the, now obsolete, Swedish law 6 kap. 4 § lagen om yrkesverksamhet på hälso- och sjukvårdens område ("Chapter 6 Section 4 of the Act on professional activities in the field of health and medical care").