Person: Albarrán Juan, María Elena
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First Name
María Elena
Last Name
Albarrán Juan
Affiliation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Faculty / Institute
Medicina
Department
Medicina Legal, Psiquiatría y Patología
Area
Medicina Legal y Forense
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- Project number: 234
Item Observatorio Complutense para la Seguridad Clínica Odontológica(2017) Perea Pérez, Bernardo; Santiago Sáez, Andrés Sebastián; Labajo González, Elena; Albarrán Juan, María Elena - Project number: 71
Item Observatorio Complutense para la Seguridad Clínica Odontológica(2018) Perea Pérez, Bernardo; Labajo González, Elena; Santiago Sáez, Andrés Sebastián; Albarrán Juan, María Elena Item Judicial consequences in Spain for the completion of the medical death certificate(International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2022) Pinto Pastor, María del Pilar; Dorado Fernández, Enrique; Herreros Ruíz-Valdepeñas, Benjamín; Albarrán Juan, María Elena; Santiago Sáez, Andrés SebastiánThe completion of the death certificate is indispensable in Spain for a death to be recorded in the civil registry. Occasionally, doctors may be reluctant to sign a death certificate due to possible legal consequences. This study seeks to analyse the possible judicial consequences doctors may face upon filling out this medico-legal document. Sentences published on the Judicial Power's website between 2009 and 2019 containing the term "death certificate" were analysed. From a total of 2100 sentences examined, only 15 were found to contain the term "death certificate" as part of the claim. In only 7 of these cases the claim was made against the physician, and in 5 the physician was found guilty. Three of them concluded falsity via criminal proceedings, one via administrative proceedings for refusing to sign the certificate and one through civil proceedings for filling out an erroneous antecedent cause of death. In view of the above, it can be inferred that the completion of the death certificate poses few judicial consequences for physicians. In addition, this study reveals the importance of the death certificate document as evidence in judicial proceedings.Item Quality analysis of the completion of death certificates in Madrid(Forensic Science International, 2023) Pinto Pastor, María Del Pilar; Dorado Fernández, Enrique; Albarrán Juan, María Elena; Santiago Sáez, Andrés SebastiánThe Death Certificate (DC) is an important medical-legal. However, despite its importance, the professionals involved are not well trained and consequently there exist many errors in completion. This situation can cause misclassification in mortality statistics, but also it means that many natural deaths end up being studied by the medical examiner, entailing a waste of resources. An analysis of 1974 DCs in Madrid is carried out to assess the quality of the completion, discover the main errors in the certificates and analyse possible improvement strategies. The study highlights that the demographic and personal information about the deceased is mostly correct; in 16,2 % of the cases the official document was not used; 91 % of the DCs in the sample have a certain degree of error (major or minor); and 38,4 % of the documents chain of causes were incorrect. The main measure proposed is increased training for certifiers, which should begin with activities at undergraduate level and continue later with periodic training workshops. In addition, we consider it essential to digitalise DCs in Spain. This would greatly facilitate completion. It is also proposed that medical examiners use, in Spain, a document similar to the official DC so that the statistics of violent and natural deaths which have required the medical examiners’ intervention will improve.- Project number: 82
Item Observatorio Complutense para la Seguridad Clínica Odontológica(2021) Perea Pérez, Bernardo; Labajo González, Elena; Santiago Sáez, Andrés Sebastián; Albarrán Juan, María Elena - Project number: 178
Item Observatorio Complutense para la seguridad clínica odontológica(2019) Perea Pérez, Bernardo; Labajo González, Elena; Santiago Sáez, Andrés Sebastián; Albarrán Juan, María Elena - Project number: 338
Item Observatorio Complutense para la Seguridad Clínica Odontológica(2020) Perea Pérez, Bernardo; Labajo González, Elena; Santiago Sáez, Andrés Sebastián; Albarrán Juan, María Elena