Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine 1990;11(7):1-7.
Published online July 1, 1990.

일부지역 의료분쟁에 대한 임상적 고찰 (Cubucak Analysis of Medical Disputes in the Practices of A Commuity)

허봉렬(Huh Bong Yul),황인홍(Hwang In Hong),최영인(Choi Young In),이원식(Lee Won Sik),정승필(Jung Seung Pll)

서울대학교병원 가정의학과

Abstract

This study was done to assess the clinical aspect of medical disputes in a community practices. There were 178 cases with medical dispute in the study. The number of female cases were over 1.6 times greater than that of male cases. The responses of the guardians in dead cases had been appeared to be more unlawful than the cases of live patients.
The main results were as follows ;
1) The medical disputes are more prevalent in 4th and 5th decades of age in male and 4th decade in female.
2) The dispute incidence rate in OBGy clinic is the highest of all department(0.44case/5yr), and neurosurgery, the second, and or thopedic surgery, the third in orders.
3) The dispute is occured more requently at the stage of treatment, especially during surgery.
Explanation of doctors to their patients, the programs of well-formed medical education to doctors and the state-controlled support were recommended to prevent doctors from medical dispute.