[Malpractice in connection with radius fractures must be reduced. Clear guidelines for treatment and follow-up are required]

Lakartidningen. 2000 Apr 12;97(15):1800-4, 1807-9.
[Article in Swedish]

Abstract

PSR handles the vast majority of malpractice injuries in Sweden. PSR is a claims handling company which settles claims for malpractice on behalf of the insurance company owned by the Swedish county councils: the County Councils Mutual Insurance Company. A central issue in the law regulating patient injuries in Swedish health care is to define injuries that could have been avoided if a certain therapeutic/diagnostic procedure or a more appropriate method had been utilized. PSR arranged a multiprofessional conference regarding guidelines to decrease the number of malpractice injuries in the treatment of distal radius fractures. Among the most important issues defined were: To improve and standardize diagnostic imaging Patient information Early decision making in surgery and physical/occupational therapy A more well-defined indication for surgery, in which type of trauma, biological age and functional demands are considered in addition to radiographs Less stereotyped thinking in follow-up Controlled randomized trials.

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Competence
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Fracture Fixation / adverse effects
  • Fracture Fixation / methods
  • Fracture Fixation, Internal / adverse effects
  • Fracture Fixation, Internal / methods
  • Fracture Healing
  • Guidelines as Topic
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Insurance Claim Review
  • Insurance, Health / economics
  • Insurance, Health / statistics & numerical data
  • Malpractice* / statistics & numerical data
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Radiography
  • Radius Fractures / diagnosis
  • Radius Fractures / diagnostic imaging
  • Radius Fractures / surgery
  • Radius Fractures / therapy*
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Sweden