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Znaczenie dowodu z dokumentacji medycznej w sprawach cywilnych o błąd medyczny – refleksje na tle praktyki i orzecznictwa sądowego
Significance of medical documentation evidence in medical error court cases

Author(s): Radosław Tymiński
Subject(s): Civil Law
Published by: Naczelna Izba Lekarska
Keywords: judicial decisions; medical error; medical documentation; evidence

Summary/Abstract: The article is about the significance of medical documentation evidence in medical error courtcases. This is a quite important issue, as in the light of the binding law we cannot say that medicaldocumentation is of evidentiary value greater than other evidentiary means. Yet in fact, thesignificance of medical documentation goes beyond a simple assumption that this is privatedocument evidence, because on the grounds of medical documentation, courts often make numerouspresumptions of facts and assess the physician’s diligence. Judicial decisions should besupposed to still evolve in the forthcoming years, modifying the role and significance of medicaldocumentation evidence.

  • Issue Year: 11/2018
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 123-138
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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