title: [The clinical history in surgical processes. Bioethical aspects and basic professional ethics].
abstract: Surgeons are increasingly facing multiple civil liability claims from their patients. Against this background and taking any eventual liability claims into account, surgeons must be increasingly aware of the importance of maintaining patient medical histories, which raises numerous questions on the length of time and form of keeping them. Ethical and legal obligations need to be taken into account in order to identify the controversial aspects related to patients and their environment, as well as shedding light on the most appropriate behaviour in each case. We must never forget the case history is a clinical document, subjected to the medical art and medical ethics which regulate it.
authors.affiliation: Comisión Central de Deontología de la Organización Médica Colegial, Unidad de Atención al Pie Diabético e Insuficiencia Venosa Crónica, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, España. ecollazo@comcordoba.com
authors.forename: Eliseo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Collazo Chao
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000941:ethics*