title: [Descriptive Study of the Activities Performed By the Provincial Medical Deontology Commissions].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to describe the expedient's features those settle the medical ethics commissions of the provincial colleges (PMEC).
  
  
  METHODS
  descriptive study, retrospective from the typology of the received claims to the PMEC between 01-06-2013 and 31-05-2014. The colleges were selected by simple stratified random sample. Variables related with the origin of the claim, chapter of the Medical Ethics Code affected, resolution timescales, judgement and others; were gathered. Descriptive analysis of the variables, expressing with medians the quantitative variables and their corresponding interquartile ranges; and with absolute and relative frequencies the qualitative ones. A bivariate analysis, through Kruskal-Wallis and Chi-square tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  10 provincial colleges participated (47.652 members, 20.2% from the Spanish total) that communicated 120 claims. Overall impact: 2.5 claims %0 members/year. The denouncers are mainly patients (80%). The family medicine is the most affected specialty (19.2% of the claims), the quality of the medical attention the most affected chapter of the CD (60% of the claims). The global resolution timescale was 115.5 days (55-187). The PMEC judged ethical failure in 17 cases (14.2), 10 of them within the private sector. 8 (6.7%) were pending on the date 01-03-2015. 8 cases (6.7%) ended in disciplinary file by the management board, one in verbal amonestation and one was pendent of resolution.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the incidence of the medical ethics claims is low, as well as the proportion of disciplinary files. Too many discrepancies exist between the judgements of the PMEC and the college's management boards.
authors.affiliation: Comisión de Deontología, Derecho Médico y Visado. Colegio Oficial de Médicos. Castellón. Avda. Capuchinos 9. 12004 Castellón. garciaj@comcas.es.
authors.forename: Julio
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: García-Guerrero
authors.affiliation: Comisión de Deontología, Derecho Médico y Visado. Colegio Oficial de Médicos. Castellón. Avda. Capuchinos 9. 12004 Castellón.
authors.forename: Ernesto
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tarazona López
authors.affiliation: Comisión de Deontología, Derecho Médico y Visado. Colegio Oficial de Médicos. Castellón. Avda. Capuchinos 9. 12004 Castellón.
authors.forename: Blanca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Martínez Calduch
authors.affiliation: Centro Penitenciario Castellón I. Ctra. de Alcora km 10. 12006 Castellón..
authors.forename: Enrique Jesús
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Vera-Remartínez
authors.affiliation: Comisión de Deontología, Derecho Médico y Visado. Colegio Oficial de Médicos. Castellón. Avda. Capuchinos 9. 12004 Castellón.
authors.forename: María Antonia
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Jiménez de Aldasoro
authors.affiliation: Comisión de Deontología, Derecho Médico y Visado. Colegio Oficial de Médicos. Castellón. Avda. Capuchinos 9. 12004 Castellón.
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Boix Rajadell
authors.affiliation: Comisión de Deontología, Derecho Médico y Visado. Colegio Oficial de Médicos. Castellón. Avda. Capuchinos 9. 12004 Castellón.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ventura López
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees / Q000941:ethics*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013030:Spain