[Possible medical errors as a cause of death in ENT patients]

The analysis of 116 case histories of the patients who had died in the Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute throughout the last 12 years has revealed diagnostic, therapeutic and technical errors in 44% of the cases. The death was due to misdiagnosis, inappropriate therapeutic policy, mediastinitis consequent to esophageal perforation made in the search of a foreign body, unqualified surgery in 4, 3, 3 and 2 patients, respectively.