Characteristics of the medical malpractice cases against orthopedists in China between 2016 and 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to identify the most frequent reasons for orthopedic medical malpractice, gain insight into the related patient demographics and clinical characteristics, and identify the independent factors associated with it.

Methods

We collected and analyzed the demographic and injury characteristics, hospital levels and treatments, medical errors, and orthopedist's degree of responsibility for the patients who were subject to orthopedic medical malpractice at our institution. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to identify the factors associated with the orthopedist's degree of responsibility in the medical malpractice cases.

Results

We included 1922 cases of medical malpractice in the final analysis. There were 1195 and 727 men and wom

SUBMITTER: Lv H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8115811 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature