Medical Liability of Residents in Taiwan Criminal Court: An Analysis of Closed Malpractice Cases

Table 4

Numbers and percentages of primary dispute types resulting in litigation categorized by disease^a.

	Total N = 40	Diagnostic error N = 12	Performance errorN = 28
Guilty cases	5 (12.5)	3 (25)	2 (7.1)
Negligent behavior by appraisal	7 (17.5)	3 (25)	4 (14.3)
Diseases
Sepsis	15 (37.5)	3 (25.0)	12 (42.9)
Operation/procedure complications	10 (25.0)	2 (16.7)	8 (28.6)
Acute coronary syndrome	3 (7.5)	2 (16.7)	1 (3.6)
Peripartum complications	3 (7.5)	0	3 (10.7)
Intracranial hemorrhage	3 (7.5)	2 (16.7)	1 (3.6)
Other^b	6 (15.0)	3 (25.0)	3 (10.7)

^aData are presented as number of patients (%). ^bOther diseases included colon perforation, delayed traumatic hemothorax, cirrhosis with gastrointestinal bleeding, valproic acid overdose, valproic-acid-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis, and malaria infection induced by inadequate sterile procedure during computed tomography.