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Professional activity of medical staff and attendant risks

Sud Med Ekspert. 2024;67(5):5-9. doi: 10.17116/sudmed2024670515.

ABSTRACT

The article presents results of a retrospective analysis of the commission forensic medical examinations of «medical malpractice cases» for 2017-2021 on materials of RCFME MH KR. It has been established that the number of commission examinations showed a pronounced tendency to increase in the analyzed period: 64 (9.78%) cases – in 2017, 86 (12.63%) – in 2018, 92 (16.46%) – in 2019, 179 (29.1%) – in 2020 and 80 (13.96%) in 2021 out of 501 cases of commission examinations on «medical malpractice cases». The considerable number of ordered examinations concerned the professional activity of obstetricians-gynecologists (131 cases; 26.1%) and surgeons (65 cases; 12.9%). Quite a large part of the examinations was represented by investigations regarding COVID-19 (72 cases; 14.37%) and AIDS infection (47 cases; 9.3%) among the commission examinations. Medical violations also concerned specialists who are not related to extreme medicine (tuberculosis specialists, oncologists, therapists, neurologists).

PMID:39440557 | DOI:10.17116/sudmed2024670515

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