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Reasons for and Facilitating Factors of Medical Malpractice Complaints. What Can Be Done to Prevent Them?
Background and objectives. Medical malpractice is an increasing phenomenon all over the world, and Romania is not spared. This matter is of concern as it has a significant impact on the physicians and the patients involved, as well as on the health care system and society in general. The purpose of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7353843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32471166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina56060259 |
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author | Hanganu, Bianca Iorga, Magdalena Muraru, Iulia-Diana Ioan, Beatrice Gabriela |
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description | Background and objectives. Medical malpractice is an increasing phenomenon all over the world, and Romania is not spared. This matter is of concern as it has a significant impact on the physicians and the patients involved, as well as on the health care system and society in general. The purpose of our study was to perform an insight analysis on the reasons for medical malpractice complaints as well as the factors that facilitate the complaints to identify specific ways to prevent them and, implicitly, to improve the medical practice. Materials and Methods. The authors conducted a retrospective study of the medical malpractice complaints registered in the period 2006–2019 at the Commission for monitoring and professional competence for malpractice cases in the region of Moldova, Romania, collecting data on both the patients and the medical professionals involved. Results. The authors analyzed 153 complaints directed against 205 medical professionals and identified 15 categories of reasons for complaints, the most significant being related to the occurrence of complications, and to the doctor–patient interaction (e.g., communication, behavior, informed consent). The most frequently reported medical specialties were obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, general surgery, and orthopedics and traumatology. Emergency medicine was often involved in complaints suggesting an over utilization of this department in our country and the need for health policies, which could divert the large number of patients accessing emergency medicine towards primary care. Conclusions. Regarding the dysfunctions in the doctor–patient relationship frequently claimed by patients, the authors concluded that doctors need special undergraduate training and periodic updating during their practice for them to be able to adequately address the challenges of interacting with their patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-73538432020-07-21 Reasons for and Facilitating Factors of Medical Malpractice Complaints. What Can Be Done to Prevent Them? Hanganu, Bianca Iorga, Magdalena Muraru, Iulia-Diana Ioan, Beatrice Gabriela Medicina (Kaunas) Article Background and objectives. Medical malpractice is an increasing phenomenon all over the world, and Romania is not spared. This matter is of concern as it has a significant impact on the physicians and the patients involved, as well as on the health care system and society in general. The purpose of our study was to perform an insight analysis on the reasons for medical malpractice complaints as well as the factors that facilitate the complaints to identify specific ways to prevent them and, implicitly, to improve the medical practice. Materials and Methods. The authors conducted a retrospective study of the medical malpractice complaints registered in the period 2006–2019 at the Commission for monitoring and professional competence for malpractice cases in the region of Moldova, Romania, collecting data on both the patients and the medical professionals involved. Results. The authors analyzed 153 complaints directed against 205 medical professionals and identified 15 categories of reasons for complaints, the most significant being related to the occurrence of complications, and to the doctor–patient interaction (e.g., communication, behavior, informed consent). The most frequently reported medical specialties were obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, general surgery, and orthopedics and traumatology. Emergency medicine was often involved in complaints suggesting an over utilization of this department in our country and the need for health policies, which could divert the large number of patients accessing emergency medicine towards primary care. Conclusions. Regarding the dysfunctions in the doctor–patient relationship frequently claimed by patients, the authors concluded that doctors need special undergraduate training and periodic updating during their practice for them to be able to adequately address the challenges of interacting with their patients. MDPI 2020-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7353843/ /pubmed/32471166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina56060259 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hanganu, Bianca Iorga, Magdalena Muraru, Iulia-Diana Ioan, Beatrice Gabriela Reasons for and Facilitating Factors of Medical Malpractice Complaints. What Can Be Done to Prevent Them? |
title | Reasons for and Facilitating Factors of Medical Malpractice Complaints. What Can Be Done to Prevent Them? |
title_full | Reasons for and Facilitating Factors of Medical Malpractice Complaints. What Can Be Done to Prevent Them? |
title_fullStr | Reasons for and Facilitating Factors of Medical Malpractice Complaints. What Can Be Done to Prevent Them? |
title_full_unstemmed | Reasons for and Facilitating Factors of Medical Malpractice Complaints. What Can Be Done to Prevent Them? |
title_short | Reasons for and Facilitating Factors of Medical Malpractice Complaints. What Can Be Done to Prevent Them? |
title_sort | reasons for and facilitating factors of medical malpractice complaints. what can be done to prevent them? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7353843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32471166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina56060259 |
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