title: [Judicial appraisal of 24 cases of medical tangles involving patient's death].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the cause of mistakes in medical tangles involving patient's death, and to analyze its key points in judicial appraisal.
  
  
  METHODS
  Total 24 cases involving patient's death and multiple identifications were respectively analyzed and summarized based on common situations, distribution of departments, degree of responsibility and mistake analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was showed that those medical tangles mostly originated from technical aspects, such as neglecting of latent symptoms, oversimplified management in clinical reception, poor cooperation between departments, and hesitation in confronting unexpected emergencies. In addition, some institutional mistakes, such as the performance of disclosure duty, opportunity of referral course, and deficiency of basal medical equipments, were the other aspects that caused these medical tangles.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results mentioned above could provide some clues for the judicial appraisal of the similar medical tangles, and be helpful for avoiding their occurrence in future.
authors.affiliation: Criminal Investigation Team, Dengfeng Public Security Bureau, Zhengzhou 452470, China. 947101195@qq.com
authors.forename: Song-min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult