title: [Adverse drug reactions and professional indemnity insurance].
abstract: In 2004, the 116000 French doctors who belong to the MACSF group "Sou Medical" submitted 41 declarations of adverse drug reactions (2% of all accident declarations). The most numerous related to complications of anticoagulant treatments (11 declarations). Aside from accidents due to inappropriate supervision (oral anticoagulants), which tend to be more frequently hemorrhagic than thrombotic, these declarations highlight the emergence of accidents resulting from poor management of anticoagulant treatment (oral anticoagulants, antiplatelet drugs) during invasive procedures, and that are more frequently thrombotic (stroke, myocardial infarction) than hemorrhagic. The legal decisions handed down in the same year as a result of complaints by victims of adverse drug reactions generally penalised the doctor for making a wrong prescription, but sometimes also the pharmacist who supplied the drug and the nurse who administered it, in cases where the medical prescription clearly did not comply with the product's approved uses.
authors.affiliation: Secrétaire général du Sou Médical groupe MACSF, 10 cours du Triangle de l'Arche 92919 La Defense cedex.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sicot
mesh_terms: D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007351:Insurance, Liability; D008297:Male; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged