[Learning from Errors: Qualitative Analysis of Expert Reports on Malpractice in Family Medicine].

ABSTRACT:

Background

Expert committees of the German medical associations provide a free and out-of-court evaluation of putative cases of medical malpractice. They prepare reports that contain valuable information on process steps that precede the actual treatment error. The aim of the present study was to identify and systematically categorize individual process steps in the expert reports and thus to lay the foundations for the understanding of malpractice evaluation processes.

Methods

In this study, ten randomly selected and anonymized expert reports of the Expert Committee for Questions of Medical Liability of the District Medical Association of South Württemberg with identified GP treatment errors were evaluated, using the method of qualitative content analysis. In an iterative p

SUBMITTER: Forster C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11003247 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature