title: [How to manage a claim for medical and technical error].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The fast modifications in French medical legislation, the increasing number of litigations and the professional consequences for the practitioner warrant the necessity to recall the "how to manage" a claim for medical error.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four cases of legal action against oncologists are presented.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The importance of quality and traceability of the given information, the essential pieces of the medical file, the description of the different process steps and of the contradictory meeting are presented and discussed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Beyond the control of medical and technical risks, the practitioners in general and the radiation oncologist in particular should learn on the daily management of the risk related to medical claim.
authors.affiliation: Institut Jean-Godinot, centre de lutte contre le cancer de Reims, France. tandat.nguyen@reims.unicancer.fr
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Nguyen
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000009:adverse effects; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D003675:Defensive Medicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods; D033002:Duty to Recontact / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D058006:General Practice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D018447:Medical Futility / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011467:Prostate / Q000473:pathology; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000473:pathology; D018787:Radiation Oncology
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents