Conference paper
Fabijan Barišić
; Dom zdravlja Požega
Ivan Malenica
; Veleučilište u Šibeniku
Abstract
Medical malpractice can be classified according to different criteria, provided by that the basic divisions ranging from those that were created by acts and those incurred by omission. Medical errors can still divide and on rough or difficult and easier; on-error stages of medical intervention, diagnostic, therapeutic, prophylactic; the technical and tactical; in general, elementary, organized labor, the information and so on. One of the forms of medical errors caused by omission (failing) is lack of medical care. Key issue is: when the doctors obligation to take care of pacient starts. It is the failure to provide immediate medical care the person from whom such care is required because of direct threats to her life. Medical action in a given situation imposed as urgent, indispensable, unavoidable, whose failure can lead to compromising the patient's life. The authors seek to show that the elements of this form of medical malpractice and way of their realization, as it is of the utmost importance because of the large number of doubts about the existence or non-existence of medical malpractice in practice.
Keywords
medical malpractice; lack of medical care; a crime failure to provide medical care; the right to health
Hrčak ID:
157104
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2015.
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