Economic aspects of medical errors.
The critical problem of medical errors and the associated costs has recently been increasingly in the focus of attention of a number of world renowned experts. In the present article we review in detail and analyse the economic aspects of this problem. A methodology to assess the cost of medical errors and an algorithm for their prevention are presented. The cost of a medical error and the expenses required to avoid and prevent it are compared using graphical analysis of the prevention cost curve and the medical error compensation damages cost curve.
Department of Health Management, Health Economics and Primary Care, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. rumi_stoqnova@abv.bg
Rumyana G
RG
Stoyanova
Ralitsa D
RD
Raycheva
Rositsa T
RT
Dimova
D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000191:economics*