How to check national medical malpractice adverse event statistics

The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) released its 2012 annual report on medical malpractice adverse event monitoring on March 3. The report shows that in 2012, the number of national medical malpractice adverse event reports exceeded 180,000, involving 43 categories of products, covering all medical malpractice categories in the Classification Catalog of Medical Devices. Medical adverse events are not equal to quality accidents, nor are they equal to medical malpractice. Adverse events of medical devices refer to all kinds of harmful events that occur under normal use of medical devices of qualified quality approved for marketing and lead to or may lead to human injury. According to the statistics, in 2012, the number of national medical malpractice adverse event reports ranked the top ten product categories in order of medical polymer materials and products, medical hygiene materials and dressings, injection and puncture instruments, implantable materials and artificial organs, physical therapy equipment, medical optical instruments, instruments and endoscopic equipment, general diagnostic instruments, medical suture materials and adhesives, medical electronic instruments and equipment, and operating rooms, Emergency room, diagnosis and treatment room equipment and apparatus. Compared with 2011, the number of reports ranked in the top ten products are basically the same, only individual product classification changes, of which, in 2011 ranked in the top ten "family planning surgical instruments" in 2012 is not included in the top ten, replaced by "operating room, emergency room, diagnostic and treatment room equipment and appliances". Instead, it was replaced by "operating room, emergency room, diagnosis and treatment room equipment and instruments". Statistical analysis by degree of injury, among the reports of suspected medical malpractice adverse events in 2012, the degree of injury of death accounted for 0.06% of the total number of reports, the degree of injury of serious injury accounted for 12.93% of the total number of reports, and the degree of injury of other reports accounted for 87.01% of the total number of reports. According to the statistical analysis of the personnel involved in the use, in 2012, 72.11% of the reports of suspected medical malpractice adverse event reports, the medical devices involved were operated by professionals; 2.34% of the reports of medical devices involved were operated by non-professionals; 12.20% of the reports of medical malpractice involved were operated by the patients themselves; and 13.34% of the reports of the operators were unknown. Among them, the proportion of reports involving medical incidents operated by professionals has decreased from 81.94% in 2011; the proportion of reports with unknown operators has increased from 2.60% in 2011.