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Medico-Legal Methods of Ascertainment and Criteria of Evaluation in Medical Responsibility and Liability

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This chapter presents the European Guidelines on Medico-Legal Methods of Ascertainment and Criteria of Evaluation in cases of suspected subjective “Medical Responsibility and/or Liability” developed under the patronage of the European Academy of Legal Medicine (EALM). It includes a step-by-step illustrated explanation of approved Flow Charts, articulated on 18 sequential steps, comprehensive of both Methods of Ascertainment and Evaluation Criteria. This document is adopted as European Guideline on the issue by the EALM.

The EALM Working-Group on Medical Malpractice

European Guidelines

Under the Patronage of the European Academy of Legal Medicine.

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    Several Clinical Guidelines can be downloaded from the official website of the Royal College of Physicians. http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/resources.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy

    S. Davide Ferrara, Rafael Boscolo-Berto & Guido Viel

  2. Service de Médecine Légale Hôpital Lapeyronie, University of Montpellier, 191 Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295, Montpellier Cedex, France

    Eric Baccino

  3. Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen Hufelandstr, 55 D-45122, Essen, Germany

    Thomas Bajanowski

  4. Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology, University of Granada, Avda Madrid 11, ES-18071, Granada, Spain

    Maria Castellano Arroyo & Enrique Villanueva

  5. Department of Private Law, University of Deusto, Heros, 28, 48007, Bilbao, Spain

    Ricardo De Angel Yágüez

  6. Department of Biolaw, Mykolas Romeris University, Ateities 20, LT-080303, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Alvydas Pauliukevičius

  7. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK

    Peter Vanezis

  8. National Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Coimbra, da Sé Nova, 3000-213, Coimbra, Portugal

    Duarte Nuno Vieira

  9. University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, loc. Germaneto, Catanzaro, 88100, Italy

    Pietrantonio Ricci

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Correspondence to S. Davide Ferrara .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Legal Medicine, Dept. of Envionmental Medicine, University Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, Padova, 35121, Italy

    Santo Davide Ferrara

  2. , Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, Padova, 35121, Italy

    Rafael Boscolo-Berto

  3. , Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, Padova, 35121, Italy

    Guido Viel

Appendixes: Flow Charts

Appendixes: Flow Charts

1.1 Methods of Ascertainment on Living Persons

1.2 Methods of Ascertainment on Cadavers

1.3 Evaluation Criteria: Part a

1.4 Evaluation Criteria: Part b

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Ferrara, S.D. et al. (2013). Medico-Legal Methods of Ascertainment and Criteria of Evaluation in Medical Responsibility and Liability. In: Ferrara, S., Boscolo-Berto, R., Viel, G. (eds) Malpractice and Medical Liability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35831-9_13

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