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Errors in Neurology* History – Avoidance – Prevention

BOŠKO BARAC orcid.org/0000-0002-0139-8116 ; Schools of Medicine, Universities of Zagreb and Osijek (ret.); Croatia

Sažetak

The history and the present state of medical profession’s attitude towards errors in medicine is analyzed in the critical study. The excellent Boston practicing physician R. Cabot aroused this problem some hundred years ago in two papers comparing diagnoses of patients admitted to hospital with post mortem findings at autopsy. More recently the interest for medical errors has been renewed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM, Washington, 1999). The author analyzed some of the papers on different aspects of mostly nonfatal
errors in neurology, which made evident that this type of investigations is important, improving continually medical diagnostics, making possible optimal choice of treatment on time.

The author concludes that the academic medicine should make coordinating efforts to study different kinds of possible medical errors, arising under special and different circumstances, which should exclude unnecessary litigation processes. The young doctors should learn the methodology how to avoid and prevent medical errors, like studying diff erential diagnostics of diseases. The states’ institutions or medical organizations on international level should produce basic legal rules for this area, and be responsible for these processes, like it is in the aviation, street traffic or see accidents.

The medical doctors must have certain degree of protection, aware at the same time that they are participated in a mission service to protect human individual life and humanity at whole: studying possible medical errors is important improving continually medical science and practice in local and global perspectives.

Ključne riječi

diagnostic errors; medication errors; medicine; malpractice; roots of errors; neurology; academic medicine

Hrčak ID:

126378

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/126378

Datum izdavanja:

31.7.2014.

Posjeta: 1.634 *