Matteo Gulino
Dottore di Ricerca in Medicina Legale e Scienze Forensi, “Sapienza” Università degli Studi di Roma
Gianluca Montanari Vergallo
Ricercatore di Medicina Legale, Dipartimento di Scienze Anatomiche, Istologiche, Medico-legali e dell’Apparato Locomotore, “Sapienza” Università degli Studi di Roma
Paola Frati
Professore Ordinario di Medicina Legale, Dipartimento di Scienze Anatomiche, Istologiche, Medico-legali e dell’Apparato Locomotore, “Sapienza” Università degli Studi di Roma
Abstract
- Medical activity includes a risk of possible injury or complications for the patients, that should drive the Health Care Institutions to introduce and/or improve clinical Risk management instruments. Although Italy is still lacking a National project of Clinical Risk Management, a number of efforts have been made by different Italian Regions to introduce instruments of risk management. In addition, most of National Health Care Institutions include actually a Department specifically in charge to manage the clinical risk. Despite the practical difficulties, the results obtained until now suggest that the risk management may represent a useful instrument to contribute to the reduction of errors in clinical conduct. Indeed, the introduction of adequate instruments of prevention and management of clinical risk may help to ameliorate the quality of health care Institution services.
- Key words: Risk Management – Medical Malpractice – Clinical Risk
