From: Investigating errors in medical imaging: medical malpractice cases in Finland
Patient injury type | Radiography | Computer tomography, CT | Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI | Ultrasound | Interventional radiologya | Mammography and screening mammography | Total | |||||||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
No major harm, no correlation to medical care | 61 | 15.3 | 28 | 7 | 93 | 23.3 | 35 | 8.6 | 50 | 12.5 | 133 | 33.3 | 400 | 38 |
Unavoidable complication or always potential consequence | 2 | 1.1 | 18 | 9.7 | 2 | 1.1 | 9 | 4.8 | 140 | 75.3 | 15 | 8.1 | 186 | 17.6 |
Pain, but no effect on treatment or prognosis | 16 | 10.1 | 14 | 8.8 | 12 | 7.5 | 5 | 3.1 | 2 | 1.3 | 110 | 69.2 | 159 | 15.2 |
Degenerated prognosis or disease or delayed cancer treatment | 3 | 10 | 1 | 3.3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 66.7 | 30 | 2.8 |
Extra, unnecessary, delayed or inadequate treatment or intervention, deterioration of disease | 32 | 28.6 | 17 | 15.2 | 23 | 20.5 | 9 | 8.0 | 3 | 2.7 | 28 | 25 | 112 | 10.6 |
Aches and pains | 48 | 63.2 | 4 | 5.3 | 13 | 17.1 | 8 | 10.5 | 1 | 1.3 | 2 | 2.6 | 76 | 7.2 |
Complication, infection, recompiled infection | 5 | 7.2 | 17 | 24.6 | 12 | 17.4 | 7 | 10.1 | 24 | 34.8 | 4 | 5.8 | 69 | 6.5 |
Death or decrease life expectancy | 1 | 4.5 | 5 | 22.7 | 6 | 27.3 | 1 | 4.5 | 9 | 40.9 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2.1 |
Total | 168 | 15.9 | 104 | 9.9 | 164 | 15.6 | 77 | 7.3 | 229 | 21.7 | 312 | 29.6 | 1054 | 100 |