OPTIMIZING RELIABILITY OF EXPERT CONCLUSIONS AT POOR OUTCOMES OF RENDERING MEDICAL CARE TO CHILDREN
The article deals with the problem of reliability of conclusions of forensic medical examination, including that held in cases of poor outcomes of rendering medical care to children. It is shown that the evaluation of reliability of an expert’s opinion involved in criminal proceedings can be carried out only on condition that the validity of the conclusion has been established. This is hard and sometimes impossible to establish without comparing the conclusions of an expert with scientific data that can only be found in special literature. To facilitate the analysis of the validity of an expert’s conclusion it is offered to provide it with information on the literature used, and this should be reflected in legal acts