Characteristics of the medical malpractice cases against orthopedists in China between 2016 and 2017

• Hongzhi Lv ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hongzhi Lv, Dongzheng Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Journal Center, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

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• Dongzheng Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hongzhi Lv, Dongzheng Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of Orthopedic Clinical Medicine Research Center, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

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• Chao Li,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

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• Peizhi Yuwen,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Journal Center, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

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• Zhiyong Hou,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

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• Wei Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dryzzhang@126.com (YZ); drchenwei1@163.com (WC)

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

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• Yingze Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dryzzhang@126.com (YZ); drchenwei1@163.com (WC)

  Affiliations Department of Journal Center, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8042-6105

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