Medical expert assessment of defects in the provision of medical care for emergency surgical abdominal pathology
The article presents a literature review on the assessment of defects and medical care, as well as the prevention of defects and conflict situations that arise during the treatment of patients with emergency surgical abdominal pathology. Unfortunately, mortality among urgent surgical patients and diseases of the abdominal organs is in the leading positions among all causes of death, despite the improvement of diagnostic methods, the emergence of new medical equipment and drugs, as well as the developed standards of approaches to the treatment of this category of patients. The paper presents statistics on the incidence of abdominal pathology and the mortality rate among the population of our country. We have studied clinical guidelines and standards for the provision of medical care to patients with acute abdominal pathology and analyzed the work on the assessment of medical care, medical errors, conflicts between the patient and the surgeon, as well as the works describing the individual characteristics of various diseases over the past decades. The article discusses in detail the causes of professional errors and defects in medical care, which include: information and deontological defects, defects in the organization of the treatment process, defects in diagnosis and defects in the treatment itself. Studied in detail the stages of the examination to assess the medical care provided. Examples of the course of the main surgical diseases of the abdominal organs in various groups of patients are described. The possible measures to prevent professional errors in doctors and patients have been studied in detail.