MEDICAL SCALES

To assess the extent of an injury, doctors use different severity scales, which in medico-legal terms, ranks the severity of the injury.

Once this is done, the next step is to look at the compensation tables, officially drawn up by a small number of commissions and unofficially by certain courts, to determine the level of award to the victim (see “compensation of the injury” hereafter).

The most well-known medical severity scale available is the “Concours médical”. A short-lived decree of 2003 had rendered it applicable when an award was to be given by ONIAM for a medical accident or an infection sustained in a hospital or clinic. 

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