Study of Causes of Health Providers’ Malpractices in Records Referred to Forensic Medicine Organization in Urmia, during 2009-2013

In spite of scientific and technologic developments
in medical diagnosis and treatment, health providers’ malpractices increased
that can decrease confidence of the people to them and cause stress and
anxiety. The study is carrued out to determine the compliant about health
providers’ malpractices in records referred to forensic medicine organization
in Urmia, during 2009-2013.
Method: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 134 malpractices claim
records registered in legal medicine organization were assessed. Demographic
characteristics of the patients and health providers, the place and the kind of
malpractices and the kind of injuries were gathered by a checklist and
analyzed by SPSS 18.
Findings: During these 4 years, 134 claimed documents had been
studied. 101 (75.4%) of samples were men and the others were women