Professional Liability in Plastic Surgery
The Council of Medical Associations of Catalonia database was used to analyze claims related to plastic surgery from 1986 to 2021. 1039 claims (9.8% over 10,567 total claims) were studied. Both the total number of claims (P = 0.016; R 2 =0.16) and the number of claims for plastic surgery (P < 0.0...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:318125 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/318125 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1097/GOX.0000000000005054 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Sumario: | The Council of Medical Associations of Catalonia database was used to analyze claims related to plastic surgery from 1986 to 2021. 1039 claims (9.8% over 10,567 total claims) were studied. Both the total number of claims (P = 0.016; R 2 =0.16) and the number of claims for plastic surgery (P < 0.0005; R 2 =0.732) showed an upward trend during the period of study. In the period from 2000 to 2021, the behavior was different; while the number of total claims stabilized (P = 0.352; R 2 = 0.043), plastic surgery claims continued to show a time-related tendency to increase (P < 0.0005; R 2 =0.484). The distribution was 50.12% out of court. Ten unique procedures accounted for 84.5% of the total number of claims. Liability was observed in 21.46% of the closed claims, with differences between civil (20.34%), criminal (6.89%), and out-of-court (25.53%) procedures. Regarding compensation amounts, out-of-court cases had an average of 33,169.44 euros paid; civil cases, 29,153.37 euros; and criminal cases, 37,186.88 euros. The increase in the number of cases can only be related to an increase in the activity carried out by plastic surgeons. There has been a change in Spain in terms of the most sought-after medical specialty, with plastic surgery having displaced the perennially most sought-after specialty, orthopedic surgery and traumatology. |
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