1. Risk management in surgery
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Messano, GIUSEPPE ALESSIO, Spaziani, Erasmo, Turchetta, F., Ceci, F., Corelli, S., Casciaro, Giovanni Enrico, Martellucci, A., Costantino, A., Napoleoni, A., Cipriani, B., Nicodemi, S., Di Grazia, C., Mosillo, R., Avallone, M., Orsini, S., Tudisco, A., Aiuti, F., and Stagnitti, Franco
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antibiotic therapy ,laparoscopic drainage ,liver abscesses ,percutaneous drainage ,risk management ,Risk Management ,Italy ,Surgical Procedures, Operative ,Humans ,Focus on ,Checklist - Abstract
Malpractice is the responsible for the greatest number of legal claims. At the present time, legal actions against physicians in Italy are 15,000 per year, and a stunning increase about costs to refund patients injured by therapeutic and diagnostic errors is expected. The method for the medical prevention is “Risk Management”, that is the setting-up of organizational instruments, methods and actions that enable the measurement or estimation of medical risk; it allows to develop strategies to govern and reduce medical error. In the present work, the reconstruction about the history of risk management in Italy was carried out. After then the latest initiatives undertaken by Italy about the issue of risk management were examined.
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- 2013