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MALPRACTICE
Tarrinni I.
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Medical Error
The failure of a planned action to be completed as
intended (an error of execution) or the use of a wrong
plan to achieve an aim (an error of planning) (Reason,
1990).
An act of omission or commission in planning or
execution that contributes or could contribute to an
unintended result (Grober, 2005).
Kekeliruan yang tidak diduga akan terjadi
/dikehendaki dalam pemberian pelayanan medis yang
dapat mengakibatkan luka ataupun tidak terhadap
pasien Gunwadi (2005).
Unintended injury
or complication that
results in disability,
death, or prolonged
hospital stay and is
caused (including
acts of omission
and acts of
commission) by
health care
management rather
than the patients
disease (Quality in
Australian Health
Study, 1995).
Causes
Healthcare complexity
Complicated technologies, powerful drugs, intensive care,
prolonged history stay
Medical Malpractice
Professional negligence by act or omission by
a health care provider in which the treatment
provided substandard of practice in the medical
community and causes harm, injury, or death to
the patient (Mello, 2014).
Negligent, improper, or unskilled treatment of
patients by health care provider where the they
have failed to follow accepted medical practice
standards, and the result is the harm or even the
death of the patient.
Elements:
A duty of care is owed by medical professionals to
patients who seek their medical care and
treatment. The medical professional failed to
deliver applicable standard of care.
Due to negligent care the patient suffered a
compensable injury.
The proximate cause of the patients injury was
negligence on the part of the medical professional
or substandard conduct on his or her part.
Types:
Birth injuries, such as cerebral palsy.
Mistakes made during surgery, such as leaving sponges or surgical
instruments inside patients, wrong-patient surgeries, wrong-organ
surgeries, or the use of unsanitary surgical instruments in the surgical
procedure.
Errors in administering anesthesiaAnesthesiologists make mistakes
in monitoring patients vital signs for signals that dosages are not
appropriate.
Errors in administering pharmaceuticalsPatients receipt of the
wrong drugs or the wrong dosages. They may occur as the result of
negligence, carelessness, or simply illegible handwriting or mistaken
use of medical abbreviations.
Misdiagnosis
Failure to diagnose
Failure to call for specific diagnostic tests or to consult an appropriate
medical specialist in order to treat a specific medical condition