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[Medical approach to liability for malpractice originating during health services]
1Kliniiki bolnicki centar Rijeka, Medicinski fakultet Sveucilista u Rijeci. herman.haller@ri.t-com.hr
Abstract:
In this paper approach of medical liability for malpractice originating during health services is analysed and elaborated. It coud be defined as comprehensive outcome of law, ethical, financial, environmental, staff and equipmental factors. Professional liability in medicine should be viewed from the next factors: competence, information, confidence, relationship between all partitioners, quality of health care, feasibility, economics, accepted scientific level, absence of conflic of interest and professional level. Today, medicine encounters explosion of knowledge and technology, new diseases, population ageing, informatic transformation, promotion of health, reinforcement of human rights and patient's rights, partnerships, role of health market as well as globalisation. In such circumstances medical staff achieve medical liability in more complex conditions and in growing population's expectations. Only partners relationship between all partitioner, deciders, participants and users of health system could define suitable and acceptable medical liability.
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