Malpractice – the expert report and the judicial decision
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-2770.v19i1p21-25Keywords:
Judicial Expertise, Malpractice Medical Error, Judicial Decision.Abstract
Any failure that occurs during the performance of health care that causes some kind of harm to a patient is considered as “malpractice”. The objective of this study was to evaluate judicial expertise in medical malpractice and correlate the expert report and its influence on judicial decision. A retrospective analysis was done of 30 expert reports carried out at the Institute of Social Medicine and Criminology of the State of São Paulo (IMESC) in the period January- April 2010. The analysis was performed in January 2013. The expert report was able to determine a causal correlation between the medical care and the damage to patients in 8 cases, in which irregularities were detected in the medical act (malpractice). Thirteen cases had been tried in the 1st instance, 10 having been dismissed. The expert report was accepted by the judge in 85% (11 cases) of judgments, showing that, in most cases, it is the one that guides the judgment.
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