We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
A Five-Year Survey for Plastic Surgery Malpractice Claims in Rome, Italy.
- Authors
Feola, Alessandro; Minotti, Chiara; Marchetti, Daniela; Caricato, Marco; Capolupo, Gabriella Teresa; Marsella, Luigi Tonino; Monaca, Giuseppe La
- 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.
- Subjects
ROME (Italy); PLASTIC surgery; MEDICAL malpractice; MEDICAL personnel; FORENSIC medicine
- Publication
Medicina (1010660X), 2021, Vol 57, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1010-660X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/medicina57060571