Duty of care and medical negligence

Rodzaje odpowiedzialności lekarza za błędy medyczne w ramach umowy o pracę oraz umowy cywilnoprawnej

“…Only some percentage of hospital inpatient admissions result in an adverse event, from among which cause claims for medical negligence cause a court action. However, both the number of claims and the awarded compensations increase as failures to uphold a suitable standard of care appear more often [9].…”

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Can Physicians Prescribe Opioids to Treat Pain Adequately While Avoiding Legal Sanction?

“…103 Regulation of physician practice generally “orients itself around the few bad apples … rules and enforcement efforts are targeted at finding, punishing, and deterring bad behavior on the part of a minority of the physician population.” 104 Yet, the investigation alone is burdensome and a driver of physician behavior: the “penalties of the process” produce physician avoidance of clinical activities that may place them in reach of investigation. 105 Physicians may find themselves embroiled in multiple legal and quasi-legal proceedings relating to the same prescribing events.…”

Pathways to Good Healthcare Services and Patient Satisfaction: An Evolutionary Game Theoretical Approach

“…The main contribution of this article is to build a basic model for the interactions of the three populations that closely capture the costs and benefits of every strategy combining decisions by agents in finite populations on either cooperation or defection. We further introduce peer punishment into the model: the patients' punishment which takes the form of complaints for clinical negligence (Bryden and Storey, 2011;Cooper et al, 2011).…”