Aspectos de la nueva teoría de Estados Unidos y Reino Unido del reconocimiento de los errores médicos con efecto en la disminución de las demandas

Abstract

The increase of claims on the medical scope determines doctors to safer professional performances and, sometimes, it even makes them ask for tests and additional diagnostic procedures which would completely enter the grounds of the so called de- fensive medicine. In the United States, the practice of the «defensive medicine» is related to the phenomenon known as Mal- practice Crisis. The spectacular increase in demands, together with a remarkable rise in compensations for damages, has had an impact on the price of bonuses which doctors pay. The phenomenon of «culture of the demand» is globalized. According to the World Medical Association (WMA), It already exists an increase in litigation that affects in a negative way the medical praxis and the availability and quality of health services. To avoid the errors is a justice question. The medical ethics calls for the decrease and the prevention of error. For years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has been insisting on the fact that to promote the culture of the recognition of the errors it is the safest way to diminish them.