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Review

Patient Safety in Orthopedics and Traumatology

Guido Barneschi  1 , Francesco Raspanti  1 , Rodolfo Capanna  2
Liam Donaldson  1 , Walter Ricciardi  2 , Susan Sheridan  3 , Riccardo Tartaglia  4
, editors.
In: Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2021. Chapter 19.
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Patient Safety in Orthopedics and Traumatology

Guido Barneschi et al.
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Excerpt

Orthopedics is a clinical branch considered to be at a high risk for medical malpractice claims. The aim of this work is to analyze the clinical risk and alleged malpractice in order to map professional risk and identify recurrent pitfalls.

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