Finansowa analiza występowania szkód dotyczących pacjentów na podstawie wyroków sądów okręgu łódzkiego
Financial analysis of the occurrence of damages relating to patients based on judgments of the courts of Łódź district

Author(s): Daria Korytkowska Piaskowska
Subject(s): Economy, Accounting - Business Administration
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Adverse Events; Civil Liability Insurance; Damage; Medical error; Claims; Compensation
Summary/Abstract: One of the most important problems that hospitals and healthcare entities struggle with is the problem of adverse events, causing damage to patients. Such damages result in various legal, medical, system, personal, social, and financial repercussions. Since this problem is quite well explored from the point of view of legal liability of healthcare entities for damage to a patient in connection with medical services, as well as from a risk management point of view, the objective of this monograph is to investigate the financial consequences. For this purpose the evaluation was made of the damages asserted and adjudicated as a result of claims for damage caused to patients in hospitals. An additional objective was also to check whether the compulsory third-party insurance of the entities offering medical services guarantees financial security to them. To this end, an analysis was carried out of selected case files related to damages to patients treated in hospitals in Poland, filed in registries of the Regional Court in Łódź in the years 2005-2011, on the basis of which the following were established: the types of adverse events that most often result in claims for compensation and their financial repercussions. What is more, it was verified to what extent these claims were satisfied in court judgments, allowing the claims partially or entirely. As a result of the research carried out, it was determined, among others, that damages to patients generate high compensation claims which are most often related to such adverse events as hospital-acquired infection, medical errors, or medical negligence, while the biggest indemnity component is compensation.

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