Legal basis: Regulations on Handling Medical Accidents

Article 4 According to the degree of personal injury to patients, medical accidents are divided into four levels:

First-class medical accident: causing death or serious disability of the patient;

Secondary medical accident: moderate disability and severe dysfunction caused by organ and tissue damage;

Third-class medical accidents: causing mild disability of patients, organ and tissue damage leading to general dysfunction;

Four-level medical accidents: other consequences that cause obvious personal injury to patients.

Specific grading standards shall be formulated by the health administrative department of the State Council.

Eleventh medical institutions and their medical staff in medical activities, should truthfully inform the patient's condition, medical measures and medical risks, and promptly answer their inquiries; However, adverse consequences for patients should be avoided.