The relationship between clinical experience and quality of care and its outcome

Abstract EN

Quality assurance and performance evaluations have become central issues in medicine.

There are several studies which indicate that general patients care is suboptimal in many different medical conditions and clinical settings 1, 2.

Delivering high-quality care is important to all clinicians, but this issue may be more relevant to certain subgroups, such as those with less specialised training and those who deal with smaller number of patients.

There is also a general believe that the longer clinicians are in practice the more experienced they will be, and therefore it is assumed that this group of medical doctors are able to provide a high quality of care.

But there are some studies that found a consistently or partially negative association.

The aim of this report is to discuss this subject further and reach some conclusions.