
El error médico es cualquier falla ocurrida durante la atención de salud que haya causado algún tipo de daño al paciente, y cuyo origen puede relacionarse con la organización e implementación del servicio, a través de múltiples y complejos mecanismos. Ninguna especialidad médica está exenta de él. Establecer la responsabilidad médica en casos de error diagnóstico es difícil, pues en muchas ocasiones resultan inevitables. No obstante, una vez analizadas sus causas, ya sean estos cognitivas, del sistema de salud o errores sin culpa, es posible instaurar estrategias que tiendan a su reducción. El punto medular en el enfoque del error médico y diagnóstico es que una vez cometido y más aún si se comprueba algún tipo de responsabilidad médica, este debe ser encarado con seriedad y transparencia.A medical error is a fault that occurs during the delivery of health care that has caused damage to the patient. It could be related to the organization and implementation of the medical service, through multiple and complex mechanisms. None of the medical areas is exempt of them. The legal analysis of diagnostic errors is difficult because many times they are inevitable. However, as soon as their possible causes-cognitive errors, system errors and no fault errors-are analyzed, it is possible to establish strategies to minimize them. The most important approach to a medical or diagnostic error is to confront it with reliability and clarity.
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