The Application of Graph Theoretical Analysis to Complex Networks in Medical Malpractice in China: Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies have shown that hospitals or physicians with multiple malpractice claims are more likely to be involved in new claims. This finding indicates that medical malpractice may be clustered by institutions.

Objective

We aimed to identify the underlying mechanisms of medical malpractice that, in the long term, may contribute to developing interventions to reduce future claims and patient harm.

Methods

This study extracted the semantic network in 6610 medical litigation records (unstructured data) obtained from a public judicial database in China. They represented the most serious cases of malpractice in the country. The medical malpractice network of China was presented as a knowledge graph based on the complex network theory; it uses the International Cla

SUBMITTER: Dong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9673000 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature