ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2021
A Five-Year Survey for Plastic Surgery Malpractice Claims in Rome, Italy.
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- Litigation and Complications Arising from Aesthetic Body Surgery: A Systematic Review.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2026Pooled it
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- A Novel Method for Identifying Patients with High Risk of Litigation in Plastic Surgery: Introducing the FATIMA Acronym.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2025Article
- Case report: "Scared to deaf": medical-legal evaluation of a suspected post -traumatic stress disorder".Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Professional Liability in Plastic Surgery: A Change of Scenario in Medical Professional Liability in Spain.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2023Article
- A Fifteen-Year Survey for Orthopedic Malpractice Claims in the Criminal Court of Rome.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Thinking like a Lawyer-Human Rights and Their Association with the Plastic Surgeon of Today.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2023Article
- Characteristics and trends of medical malpractice claims in Japan between 2006 and 2021.PloS one · 2023Article
- Medico-Legal Aspects of Hospital-Acquired Infections: 5-Years of Judgements of the Civil Court of Rome.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Impact on Healthcare Workers of Italian Law n. 24/2017 "Gelli-Bianco" on Patient Safety and Medical Liability: A National Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Socio-Demographic, Professional and Institutional Characteristics That Make Romanian Doctors More Prone to Malpractice Complaints.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- The Combination of Lymph Node Transfer and Excisional Procedures in Bilateral Lower Extremity Lymphedema: Clinical Outcomes and Quality of Life Assessment with Long-Term Follow-Up.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
(1) Introduction: Medical malpractice claims against both health institutions and physicians are a crucial topic in Italy, as well as in other countries, particularly regarding civil proceedings. Our study reports an analysis of all of the malpractice judgments concerning plastic surgery decided in the Civil Court of Rome between 2012 and 2016. (2) Methods: the database of the Observatory Project on Medical Responsibility (ORMe) was analyzed, which collects all of the judgments of the Civil Court of Rome, that is, the first instance district court. Therefore, neither the jurisprudence of the second level court nor that of the Supreme Court was taken into account. (3) Results: 144 judgments concerning plastic surgery were delivered in the five-year period of 2012-2016 (corresponding to 10.6% of total professional liability verdicts of the Civil Court of Rome in the same period). In 101/144 cases (70.14%), the claim was accepted. A total of €4,727,579.00 was paid in compensation for plastic surgery malpractice claims, with a range from a minimum amount of €1555.96 to a maximum amount of €1,425,155.00 and an average compensation of €46,807.71 per claim that was significantly lower compared to other surgical disciplines. (4) Conclusions: Our data confirm that the analyzed branch has a high litigation rate, with a prevalence of convictions for cosmetic procedures over reconstructive ones, both for malpractice and for violation of the informed consent. Plastic surgery is also confirmed among those branches in which the professionals are more frequently sued compared to health institutions.
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