Title Malpractice and medical liability : European state of the art and guidelines / Santo Davide Ferrara, editor ; Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Guido Viel, co-editors

Published Heidelberg : Springer, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations (some color) Contents Part I Overview. Present and future perspectives for medical malpractice, responsibility, and liability / S. Davide Ferrara, Guido Viel, Rafael Boscolo-Berto -- Part II Historical background. Historical overview of medical liability / Maurizio Rippa Bonati, Fabio Zampieri -- Praxis et mala-praxis medica / Ivone Cacciavillani -- Part III Legislative and juridical background. European legislative and juridical overview / Paola Frati, Matteo Gulino -- Causal value and causal link / S. Davide Ferrara -- Part IV Major European countries and/or areas. Medical responsibility and liability in German-speaking countries: Austria, Germany, and Switzerland / Thomas Bajanowski, Walter Rabl, Tony Fracasso -- Medical responsibility and liability in the United Kingdom / Peter Vanezis -- Medical responsibility and liability in France / Eric Baccino -- Medical responsibility and liability in Spain / María Castellano Arroyo, Ricardo de Ángel Yágüez -- Medical responsibility and liability in Portugal / Vera Lúcia Raposo, Duarte Nuno Vieira -- Medical responsibility and liability in Italy / Pietrantonio Ricci, Francesco Ausania, Paolo Arbarello -- Medical responsibility and liability in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia / Alvydas Pauliukevičius, Marija Caplinskienė, Romas Raudys, Ojars Teteris -- Part V Consensus document: European guidelines. Medico-legal methods of ascertainment and criteria of evaluation in medical responsibility and liability / S. Davide Ferrara, Eric Baccino, Thomas Bajanowski, Rafael Boscolo-Berto -- Part VI Final statements. Requirements and final recommendations / S. Davide Ferrara, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Guido Viel -- Iconography -- Historical iconography from the "Vincenzo Pinali" antique medical library / S. Davide Ferrara, Guido Viel, Rafael Boscolo-Berto Summary Medical responsibility lawsuits have become a fact of life in every physician's medical practice. However, there is evidence that physicians are increasingly practicing defensive medicine, ordering more tests than may be necessary and avoiding patients with complicated conditions. Modern medical practice is increasingly complicated by factors beyond the traditional realm of patient care, including novel technologies, loss of physician autonomy, and economic pressures. A continuing and significant issue affecting physicians and the healthcare system is malpractice. In the latter half of the 20th century, there was a major change in the attitude of the public towards the medical profession. People were made aware of the huge advances in medical technology, because health problems have increasingly tended to attract media interest and wide publicity. Medicine is a victim of its own success in this respect, and people are now led to expect the latest techniques and a perfect outcome on every occasion. This burst of technology and hyper-specialization in many fields of medicine means that each malpractice claim is transformed into a scientific challenge, requiring specific preparation in the analysis and judgment of the clinical case in question. The role of legal medicine has become increasingly specific in this judicial setting, often giving rise to erroneous interpretations and hasty scientific verdicts, but guidelines on the methodology of ascertainments and criteria of evaluation are lacking all over the world. The aim of this book is to clarify the steps required for a sequential, in-depth analysis of events and the consequences of medical actions. This can then be used to verify whether, in the presence of damage, health professionals made errors or failed to observe rules of conduct, and which causal values and links to their possible misconduct are involved Analysis Medicine Forensic medicine Public health laws Biomedicine Forensic Science Medical Law Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from resource home page (SpringerLink, viewed on January 15, 2015) Subject Medical laws and legislation -- Europe Medical jurisprudence -- Europe Medical personnel -- Malpractice -- Europe Medical laws and legislation. Liability, Legal Malpractice -- legislation & jurisprudence Legislation, Medical Medical Errors -- legislation & jurisprudence LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Medical jurisprudence Medical laws and legislation Medical personnel -- Malpractice SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 Europe Subject Europe Form Electronic book Author Ferrara, S. D. (Santo Davide), editor. Boscolo-Berto, Rafael, editor. Viel, Guido, editor. ISBN 9783642358319 3642358314

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