Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues

Clinical decision-makingIt is important that students are not simply trained as technicians or 'root canal therapists'.Students should be encouraged to consider all options for the Undergraduate Curriculum Guidelines for Endodontology De Moor et al.

ACCESSIBLE SUMMARY: In the previous paper we described a model explaining differences in rates of conflict and containment between wards, grouping causal factors into six domains: the staff team, the physical environment, outside hospital, the patient community, patient characteristics and the regulatory framework. Th…

• HÜLYA BİLGİN

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the patient safety culture in primary healthcare units. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study, utilizing the Turkish version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a demographic questionnaire. SETTING: Twelve primary healthcare…

• EMEL FİLİZ

Medical errors are a serious public health problem and the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Every day, the health care professionals (HCPs) practice their skill and knowledge within excessively complex situations and meet unexpected patient outcomes. These unexpected complications and unint…

• IŞIL İREM BUDAKOĞLU
• ÖZLEM COŞKUN
• VİLDAN ÖZEKE

Patient safety concept has achieved more attention from healthcare organizations to improve the safety culture. This study aimed to investigate patient safety attitudes among doctors and nurses and explore associations between workload, adverse events, and experience with patient safety attitudes. The study used a des…

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• ÜLKÜ GÜNEŞ

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• ÖZNUR GÜRLEK KISACIK

Objective To identify the prevalence of the practice of defensive medicine among Italian hospital physicians, its costs and the reasons for practising defensive medicine and possible solutions to reduce the practice of defensive medicine. Methods Cross-sectional web survey. Main outcome measures Number of physicians r…

• SEVAL KUL HALTER

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This cadaveric study used 200 scaphoid bones (100 left and 100 right) to assess 24 morphological and 11 morphometric parameters. At least one morphometric feature was absent in all scaphoids, though the tubercle and the dorsal sulcus were present in all instances. There were significant differences in the circumferenc…

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