[Medical malpractice in surgery II: Ways of risk management]

The aims of risk management concerning medical malpractice are (1) the quick, correct and fair assessment of assumed medical failures, (2) to prevent the expansion of medical complications after an assumed medical failure and (3) the identification of patterns of risks. The latter has to be done locally and national-wide; it has to be done focussed to the respective medical subject and in a general matter as well.