Analysis of medico-legal claims related to deliveries: Caesarean section vs. vaginal delivery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Iranian National Health Service (NHS) suggested that gynecologists face a higher risk of medicolegal claims, with a significant number of claims being related to delivery events. This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with delivery related claims.

Method

In this cross-sectional study, we conducted an analysis of medico-legal documents which related to complications during delivery events and presented to Iranian Medical Legal Organization spanning from March 2018 to February 2020. A total of 227 legal prosecutions that were initiated by patients or, in cases where that wasn't possible, by their families, were included in the study and all of them were evaluated in commission with experienced professionals. The data collection phase occurred bet

SUBMITTER: Eshraghi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11575767 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature