Malpractice litigation, workload, and general practitioner retirement

Birkeland, Søren; Bogh, Søren Bie

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“…The present study indicates that family medicine is one of the specialties in which doctors receive the fewest complaints, which is partly consistent with the results obtained in a previous study [7]. Although there are studies in the literature that place a generally high risk for family medicine [48,49], the fact that this specialty received fewer complaints in the present and the previous studies is not a situation limited to Romania, as there are other authors who have obtained similar results [38]. What is, however, particular for Romania is the general context in which patients often avoid using the services of the family doctor, instead requesting in excess the emergency services-either by calling the unique emergency number 112, which involves driving an ambulance at the patient's home, or by presenting directly to the emergency unit for conditions that could be resolved by the family doctor [50].…”

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Socio-Demographic, Professional and Institutional Characteristics That Make Romanian Doctors More Prone to Malpractice Complaints

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Background and objectives: Medical malpractice is a phenomenon that shadows current medical practice, the number of complaints following an upward trend worldwide. The background for complaints is related both to the doctor and medical practice in general, as well as to the patient. The aim of this study was to identify a profile of the Romanian doctors who are more prone to receiving complaints, by analyzing the socio-demographic, professional and institutional characteristics. Materials and Methods: We conducted a quantitative, prospective research, the data being collected using a newly developed questionnaire. Data analysis was performed with the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, version 24). We used counts, percentages, means and standard deviation, and comparative and correlational analyses. A logistic regression model was applied to select a statistically best-fit model to identify independent predictors for receiving complaints; a Hosmer–Lemeshow test was used to check the performance of the prediction model. Results: The study group consisted of 1684 doctors, of which 16.1% had been involved in a malpractice complaint. Results showed that men, senior doctors from surgical specialties who perform a greater number of on-call shifts, those who work in regional or county hospitals, those who have greater fear of receiving complaints and those whose life partner is a doctor with the same specialty are more prone to receiving complaints. Conclusions: The profile identified by the present research underlines the main characteristics that could be targeted with specific measures in order to prevent the ongoing increase of malpractice complaints in Romania.

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“…With an increase in the number of physiotherapists being involved in litigation (Beswetherick 2019;Birkeland & Bogh 2019), there is a need to understand the complexities of this role to ensure the welfare of the patient and the therapist.…”

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A qualitative study to explore the experiences of first contact physiotherapy practitioners in the NHS and their experiences of their first contact role

Greenhalgh

Selfe

Yeowell

2020

Musculoskeletal Science and Practice

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Typology of predictors of limitations to professionalization of physicians over working age in national health systems

Krom,

Sapogova,

Rebrova

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Sociology of Medicine

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For modern national healthcare systems, the problem of personnel crisis and shortage of medical personnel is relevant. In recent decades, the professional activities of physicians in healthcare systems have become more complex. Social requirements for physicians are increasing, regulation of professional activities of physicians is becoming more and more rigid, and responsibility is increasing. However, the topic of professionalization of physicians of older working age in modern health care systems has so far remained on the periphery of research interests. The study aims to typologize the limitations of the professionalization of doctors over working age in modern healthcare systems. Due to the trend of demographic shift common to developed countries and the increase in the age range of professional life of the population in national health care systems, there is an increase in the number of working doctors of pre-retirement and retirement age. Physicians over working age of various medical specialties often face age-related problems of professional life, deteriorating health, and cognitive problems. The typology developed by the authors examines 2 groups of predictors of restrictions on the professionalization of doctors over working age: institutional (legislative decisions defining age restrictions on professional activity, conditions of professional activity, relationships in the team and with patients) and individual-personal (gender and age characteristics of doctors, somatic, cognitive and professional deprivation, psycho-emotional stress, financial ability to complete work, desire to change lifestyle and family circumstances). In the conditions of deficit and suboptimal structure of medical personnel in the Russian health care system, prolongation of effective professionalization of doctors is discussed as one of the directions of overcoming the personnel crisis. The development and adoption of managerial decisions aimed at overcoming the limitations of professionalization of doctors older than working age seems relevant. In this regard, the typology of predictors of the limitations of professionalization of physicians over working age is an important theoretical and applied task.

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Malpractice litigation, workload, and general practitioner retirement

Cited by 3 publications

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Socio-Demographic, Professional and Institutional Characteristics That Make Romanian Doctors More Prone to Malpractice Complaints

Socio-Demographic, Professional and Institutional Characteristics That Make Romanian Doctors More Prone to Malpractice Complaints

A qualitative study to explore the experiences of first contact physiotherapy practitioners in the NHS and their experiences of their first contact role

Typology of predictors of limitations to professionalization of physicians over working age in national health systems

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