Insurance Claims for Wrong-Side, Wrong-Organ, Wrong-Procedure, or Wrong-Person Surgical Errors: A Retrospective Study for 10 Years.

Objective: Serious adverse events, such as wrong-side, wrong-organ, wrong-procedure, or wrong-person errors, still occur despite the implementation of preventative measures. In France, we describe the claims related to such errors based on the database from one of the main insurance companies.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of claims declared between January 2007 and December 2017 to Relyens, a medical liability insurance company (Sham), was performed.

Clinical Safety Recommendations for Testicular Torsion: Analysis of 101 Claims Settled with Compensation in Spain and France.

Introduction: The study aimed to analyze testicular torsion (TT) claims settled with compensation to have data available as the basis for making recommendations to decrease clinical risk and prevent claims. TT is a urological emergency with a high rate of orchiectomy, representing one of the main reasons for urological claims.

Methods: Data were analyzed from personal majority policy and from the public sector of Catalonia (Spain), as well as data from the main medical civil liability insurance firm at healthcare centers in France in the period from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2018.

Serious adverse events and deaths linked to poor ventilator use: A report of four closed claims.

Through this series of four closed claims, we highlight examples of accidents stemming from poor ventilator use. We then review the main issues in this regard as reported in the literature and by learned societies. This case series has led us to emphasise the need for safety procedures involving systematic checks prior to use, declaration and analysis of the risk, as well as feedback and teaching regarding ventilation systems.

A ten-year analysis of the reasons for death following ambulatory surgery: Nine closed claims declared to the SHAM insurance.

Introduction: The constant development of ambulatory surgery (AS) raises the problem of monitoring patients after discharge and the risk of death in the case of delays in the management of a serious complication.

Patients And Methods: The aim of this retrospective study was to describe the deaths observed within the 30-day period following AS declared to the SHAM insurance (Société hospitalière d'assurance mutuelle) over the last 10 years.

Results: During the study period 33,962 claims were surgery-related and 11 were for deaths after AS.

Surgical exploration of hand wounds in the emergency room: Preliminary study of 80 personal injury claims.

Background: The SHAM Insurance Company in Lyon, France, estimated that inadequate hand wound exploration in the emergency room (ER) accounted for 10% of all ER-related personal injury claims in 2013. The objective of this study was to conduct a critical analysis of 80 claims that were related to hand wound management in the ER and led to compensation by SHAM.

Material And Methods: Eighty claims filed between 2007 and 2010 were anonymised then included into the study.