A5087746512- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Ethics in medical practice
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Digital Imaging in Medicine
- Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Disaster Response and Management
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Stress and Burnout Research
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Genital Health and Disease
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces
- Restraint-Related Deaths
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Public Health and Environmental Issues
Universitat de Barcelona
2016-2025
FC Barcelona
2015-2024
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2018-2024
Departamento de Salud
2014-2022
Instituto Nacional de Toxicología y Ciencias Forenses
1998-2022
Escuela Nacional de Sanidad
2021-2022
Government of Catalonia
2004-2021
Medicina
2008-2020
Departament de Salut
2017
Instituto de Medicina Genómica
2012
Patient safety and professional liability are major concerns worldwide. Despite the pervasive influence of catastrophic malpractice payouts, little is known about specific characteristics overall relevance these especially outside U.S. borders. Five hundred fifty claims led to a payout among 2,236 from January 1, 2004 December 31, 2010, in Catalonia (Spain). We analyzed data on patient, provider, claim characteristics. Accordingly our sample, Spanish payouts (SCP) were defined as over...
Malpractice litigation causes extreme stress. We examine the psychological impact of malpractice claims on physicians' well-being and consequences patient care.A confidential telephone survey, administered to physicians with both open closed from previous year, explored symptoms, changes, needs, impairments, practice changes.Of 282 respondents, more than half (56.38%) reported a notable reaction claim, no differences between (P = 0.2477) or without payout 1). Physicians facing criminal...