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Xu, Xiao, Stephen J. Spurr, Bin Nan, and A. Mark Fendrick. "The effect of medical malpractice liability on rate of referrals received by specialist physicians." Health Economics, Policy and Law 8, no. 4 (2013): 453–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744133113000157.

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AbstractUsing nationally representative data from the United States, this paper analyzed the effect of a state's medical malpractice environment on referral visits received by specialist physicians. The analytic sample included 12,839 ambulatory visits to specialist care doctors in office-based settings in the United States during 2003–2007. Whether the patient was referred for the visit was examined for its association with the state's malpractice environment, assessed by the frequency and severity of paid medical malpractice claims, medical malpractice insurance premiums and an indicator for

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McMichael, Benjamin J. "Shifting Liability with Licensing: An Empirical Analysis of Medical Malpractice and Scope-of-Practice Laws." Journal of Tort Law 12, no. 2 (2019): 213–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jtl-2019-0028.

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Abstract Medical malpractice liability plays an important role in the healthcare system, as evidenced by the many studies finding that changes in malpractice liability risk induce changes in the delivery and consumption of care. Importantly, the effect of malpractice liability depends on who is held liable, and recent developments in the healthcare system have clouded which providers face the risk of liability in certain situations. In particular, as the United States continues to face a physician shortage, nurse practitioners (NPs) have assumed greater roles within the healthcare system. Thei

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Chan, Andrew K., Michele Santacatterina, Brenton Pennicooke, et al. "Does state malpractice environment affect outcomes following spinal fusions? A robust statistical and machine learning analysis of 549,775 discharges following spinal fusion surgery in the United States." Neurosurgical Focus 49, no. 5 (2020): E18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2020.8.focus20610.

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OBJECTIVESpine surgery is especially susceptible to malpractice claims. Critics of the US medical liability system argue that it drives up costs, whereas proponents argue it deters negligence. Here, the authors study the relationship between malpractice claim density and outcomes.METHODSThe following methods were used: 1) the National Practitioner Data Bank was used to determine the number of malpractice claims per 100 physicians, by state, between 2005 and 2010; 2) the Nationwide Inpatient Sample was queried for spinal fusion patients; and 3) the Area Resource File was queried to determine th

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Donohue, Jeffrey P. "Developing Issues Under the Massachusetts ‘Physician Profile’ Act." American Journal of Law & Medicine 23, no. 1 (1997): 115–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0098858800010637.

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Massachusetts recently became the first state in the United States to publish physician malpractice histories and hospital disciplinary records. On August 9, 1996, Governor William F. Weld signed the Physician Profile Act (Profile Act or Act) into law, making “profiles” of the Commonwealth’s approximately twentyseven thousand doctors available to the public. Under the Act, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine (Board) provides information on physicians’ insurance plans, specialties, training, honors, and malpractice histories over a toll-free telephone number, through the Interne

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Hay, I. "Place, Power, and Medical Liability Insurance in the United States." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 24, no. 5 (1992): 645–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a240645.

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Following the Western world's economic ‘crisis’ of the early 1970s and the related medical liability insurance calamity in the United States, new spatial and organizational arrangements emerged in the US medical malpractice insurance market. Reorganization gave a major London-based reinsurer—Lloyd's—a great deal of potential influence over the politically powerful US medical profession. At the same time as the prospects of control over medicine and law were being concentrated in London, Lloyd's was confronting immense financial difficulties arising from asbestos-related liability claims in the

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Heller, Thomas Allan. "An Overview of Medical Malpractice Law in the United States Including Legislative and the Health Care Industry’s Responses to Increased Claims." Medicine, Law & Society 10, no. 2 (2017): 139–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/2463-7955.10.2.139-163.2017.

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Medical Malpractice claims are frequently asserted in the United States. At various time and places, an extraordinarily high number of claims and payouts led to what some have called medical malpractice crises. Consequently, in some geographical locations physicians either could not purchase malpractice insurance as carriers withdrew from the market, or, insurance became increasingly expensive and the overall costs associated with the delivery of health care continued to rise. Other undesirable consequences of these crises included a shortage of qualified physicians in certain parts of the cou

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Farrow, Freeman L. "The Anti-Patient Psychology of Health Courts: Prescriptions from a Lawyer-Physician." American Journal of Law & Medicine 36, no. 1 (2010): 188–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009885881003600104.

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Critics of the current medical malpractice tort system claim that adjudication of malpractice claims before generalist judges and lay juries contributes to rising costs of medical malpractice insurance premiums and medical care. They claim that properly deciding issues in this realm requires specialized knowledge of medicine and medical technology that juries, and even judges of general jurisdiction, do not possess. One lobbying group alleges there is a continuing medical malpractice litigation crisis in the United States, evidenced by increasing medical costs, deaths from needless medical err

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Hooker, Roderick S., Jeffrey G. Nicholson, and Tuan Le. "Does the Employment of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners Increase Liability?" Journal of Medical Regulation 95, no. 2 (2009): 6–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.30770/2572-1852-95.2.6.

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ABSTRACT We assessed whether physician assistant (PA) and nurse practitioner (NP) utilization increases liability. In total, 17 years of data compiled in the United States National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) was used to compare and analyze malpractice incidence, payment amount and other measures of liability among doctors, PAs and advanced practice nurses (APNs). From 1991 through 2007, 324,285 NPDB entries were logged, involving 273,693 providers of interest. Significant differences were found in liability reports among doctors, PAs and APNs. Physicians made, on average, malpractice paymen

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Kosty, Jennifer, Bowen Jiang, Devon C. LeFever, et al. "The Medical Review Panel in Louisiana Neurosurgery and Beyond." Neurosurgery 85, no. 6 (2019): E992—E1001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyz319.

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Abstract For the past several decades, medical malpractice claims in the state of Louisiana have been screened by a pretrial medical review panel (MRP). Composed of 3 physicians and 1 attorney, these panels are a method of filtering nonmeritorious lawsuits while expediting creditable claims. Currently, 14 jurisdictions in the United States require medical liability/malpractice cases be heard by an MRP or screening panel prior to trial. In this article, we review the MRP process in Louisiana and compare it to those in other states. Data are presented for the past 10 yr of malpractice claims in

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Ellington, Charles R., Martey Dodoo, Robert Phillips, Ronald Szabat, Larry Green, and Kim Bullock. "State Tort Reforms and Hospital Malpractice Costs." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 38, no. 1 (2010): 127–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2010.00472.x.

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Medical liability remains a major concern among U.S. physicians, and according to the American Medical Association (AMA) the United States is currently experiencing its third fullblown medical liability crisis with many physicians limiting their practices as a result of rising malpractice costs. The AMA, many in the medical community, and several prominent politicians including former president George W. Bush have called for medical liability reform including caps on non-economic damages. Some researchers argue that the medical liability crisis has been overdrawn. Several studies have shown th

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Collins, Mary McNaughton, Floyd J. Fowler, Richard G. Roberts, Joseph E. Oesterling, George J. Annas, and Michael J. Barry. "Medical Malpractice Implications of PSA Testing for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 25, no. 4 (1997): 234–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1997.tb01405.x.

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Prostate cancer has become a major health concern of male Americans. It is now the most common nondermatologic cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among men. The incidence of detected prostate cancer rose rapidly in recent years, partly because of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing; it is only now tapering off. Screening for prostate cancer with PSA is widespread in the United States, yet controversial: the American Urological Association recommends PSA screening and the American Cancer Society recommends offering screening; however, the United States Preventive Services T

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Larkin, Collin J., Anastasios G. Roumeliotis, Constantine L. Karras, et al. "Overview of medical malpractice in neurosurgery." Neurosurgical Focus 49, no. 5 (2020): E2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2020.8.focus20588.

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Annually, 20% of all practicing neurosurgeons in the United States are faced with medical malpractice litigation. The average indemnity paid in a closed neurosurgical civil claim is $439,146, the highest of all medical specialties. The majority of claims result from dissatisfaction following spinal surgery, although claims after cranial surgery tend to be costlier. On a societal scale, the increasing prevalence of medical malpractice claims is a catalyst for the practice of defensive medicine, resulting in record-level healthcare costs. Outside of the obvious financial strains, malpractice cla

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LeFever, Devon, Audrey Demand, Sandeep Kandregula, et al. "Status of current medicolegal reform in the United States: a neurosurgical perspective." Neurosurgical Focus 49, no. 5 (2020): E5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2020.8.focus20616.

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OBJECTIVEThere are approximately 85,000 lawsuits filed against medical practitioners every year in the US. Among these lawsuits, neurosurgery has been identified as a “high-risk specialty” with exceptional chance of having medical malpractice suits filed. Major issues affecting the overall medicolegal environment include tort reform, the formation of medical review panels, the increasing practice of defensive medicine, and the rising costs of medical insurance. In this study, the authors provide a concise update of the current medicolegal environments of the 50 states and provide a general gui

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Lage, C., C. Gao, and M. K. Scullin. "0201 Medical Malpractice Payments Following Mild Sleep Loss and the Daylight Saving Time Shift." Sleep 43, Supplement_1 (2020): A79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaa056.199.

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Abstract Introduction The national cost of the medical liability system exceeds $10 billion/year, but not all medical errors result in a malpractice claim or payment. Malpractice claims are more likely if the medical error is perceived as severe, if the physician is perceived as lacking empathy, and if negative emotional reactions are triggered in the patient (due to individual or contextual factors). In recent experimental work, participants who were mildly sleep restricted showed an increased propensity to want to punish physicians for medical errors and compensate patients the maximum allow

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Virgo, Katherine S., Catherine C. Lerro, Carrie N. Klabunde, Craig Earle, and Patricia A. Ganz. "Barriers to Breast and Colorectal Cancer Survivorship Care: Perceptions of Primary Care Physicians and Medical Oncologists in the United States." Journal of Clinical Oncology 31, no. 18 (2013): 2322–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2012.45.6954.

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Purpose High-quality, well-coordinated cancer survivorship care is needed yet barriers remain owing to fragmentation in the United States health care system. This article is a nationwide survey of barriers perceived by primary care physicians (PCPs) and medical oncologists (MOs) regarding breast and colorectal cancer survivorship care beyond 5 years after treatment. Methods The Survey of Physician Attitudes Regarding the Care of Cancer Survivors was mailed out in 2009 to a nationally-representative sample (n = 3,596) of US PCPs and MOs. Ten physician-perceived cancer survivorship care barriers

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Manchikanti, Laxmaiah. "Medicare Physician Payment Systems: Impact of 2011 Schedule on Interventional Pain Management." Pain Physician 1;14, no. 1;1 (2011): E5—E33. http://dx.doi.org/10.36076/ppj.2011/14/e5.

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Physicians in the United States have been affected by significant changes in the patterns of medical practice evolving over the last several decades. The recently passed affordable health care law, termed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (the ACA, for short) affects physicians more than any other law. Physician services are an integral part of health care. Physicians are paid in the United States for their personal services. This payment also includes the overhead expenses for maintaining an office and providing services. The payment system is highly variable in the priva

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Ahmed, Osman, and Brian Funaki. "Medical Malpractice Primer for Practicing Interventional Radiologists." Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal 70, no. 3 (2019): 292–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carj.2019.03.003.

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Medical professional liability (MPL), also commonly referred to as medical malpractice, is a costly issue in health care today, accounting for roughly 2.4% of total health care expenditure in the United States. Almost all physicians currently in clinical practice will either be subject to a lawsuit themselves or work with someone who has. Given a lack of formal structured education about MPL in medicine for trainees, this review aims to define and discuss the relevant concepts in MPL as a reference for early career interventionalists to understand the current medicolegal environment and learn

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Kaplan, Jonathan L., Warren C. Hammert, and James E. Zin. "Lawsuits against plastic surgeons: Does locale affect incidence of claims?" Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery 15, no. 3 (2007): 155–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/229255030701500309.

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Background Physicians continue to practice in a very litigious environment. Some physicians try to mitigate their exposure to lawsuits by avoiding geographical locations known for their high incidence of medical malpractice claims. Not only are certain areas of the United States known to have a higher incidence of litigation, but it is also assumed that certain areas of the hospital incur a greater liability. There seems to be a medicolegal dogma suggesting a higher percentage of malpractice claims coming from patients seen in the emergency room (ER), as well as higher settlements for ER claim

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Kessler, Daniel P. "Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform." Journal of Economic Perspectives 25, no. 2 (2011): 93–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.25.2.93.

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The U.S. medical malpractice liability system has two principal objectives: to compensate patients who are injured through the negligence of healthcare providers and to deter providers from practicing negligently. In practice, however, the system is slow and costly to administer. It both fails to compensate patients who have suffered from bad medical care and compensates those who haven't. According to opinion surveys of physicians, the system creates incentives to undertake cost-ineffective treatments based on fear of legal liability—to practice “defensive medicine.” The failures of the liabi

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Poses, Roy M., D. Mark Chaput De Saintonge, Donna K. Mcclish, et al. "An International Comparison of Physicians' Judgments of Outcome Rates of Cardiac Procedures and Attitudes toward Risk, Uncertainty, Justifiability, and Regret." Medical Decision Making 18, no. 2 (1998): 131–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272989x9801800201.

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Objective. Compare U.K. and U.S. physicians' judgments of population probabilities of important outcomes of invasive cardiac procedures; and values held by them about risk, uncertainty, regret, and justifiability relevant to utilization of cardiac treatments. Design. Cross-sectional study. Setting. University hospital and VA medical center in the United States; two teaching hospitals in the United Kingdom. Participants. 171 housestaff and attendings at U.S. teaching hospitals; 51 physician trainees and consultants at U.K. hospitals. Measures. Judgments of probabilities of severe complications

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Hill, Gregory Q., and Robert K. Ryu. "A Primer to Understanding the Elements of Medical Malpractice." Seminars in Interventional Radiology 36, no. 02 (2019): 117–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1688425.

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AbstractAccording to a 2017 survey of 4,000 physicians across 25 different specialties in the United States, 55% of respondents report having been sued at least once, with nearly half of them having been sued multiple times. In addition, procedural specialists are far more likely to be sued. As a procedural-driven specialty, interventional radiology (IR) practitioners are subject to these statistics. While the focus of all IR practices is providing the highest quality care safely and efficiently, medical errors and complications are unavoidable. Understanding the process of medical malpractice

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Mitchell, Chester N., and Shona McDiarmid. "Medical Malpractice: A Challenge to Alternative Dispute Resolution." Canadian journal of law and society 3 (1988): 227–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0829320100001393.

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Ideally, medical malpractice actions should deter medical negligence and compensate victims in a manner that is fair, speedy, cost-effective and accessible. Tort critics, however, argue that tort law in general and malpractice actions in particular do not match this ideal. But there is considerable debate about whether the identified faults are inherent or optional in tort adjudication. Those who believe adjudication itself is faulty propose alternative strategies including no-fault compensation schemes, public law prosecution and arbitration. In the paper's first section we consider whether t

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Glover, McKinley, Glen W. McGee, Derek S. Wilkinson, et al. "Characteristics of Paid Malpractice Claims Among Resident Physicians From 2001 to 2015 in the United States." Academic Medicine 95, no. 2 (2020): 255–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000003039.

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Schwartz, Ruben. "Descriptive Analysis of Federal and State Interventional Pain Malpractice Litigation in the United States: A Pilot Investigation." Pain Physician 4;23, no. 7;4 (2020): 413–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.36076/ppj.2020/23/413.

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Background: The aim of this study was to examine and appreciate characteristics of malpractice lawsuits brought against interventional pain specialists. Objectives: To examine and appreciate characteristics of malpractice lawsuits brought against interventional pain specialists. Study Design: Retrospective review. Setting: Jury verdicts and settlement reports of state and federal malpractice cases involving interventional pain practitioners from January 1, 1988, to January 1, 2018 were gathered from the Westlaw online legal database. Methods: Jury verdicts and settlement reports of state and f

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Carroll, Aaron E., Parul Divya Parikh, and Jennifer L. Buddenbaum. "The Impact of Defense Expenses in Medical Malpractice Claims." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 40, no. 1 (2012): 135–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2012.00651.x.

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Whenever health care reform is debated, the state of the medical professional liability (MPL) system (i.e., medical malpractice system) in the United States re-emerges as an issue of importance. What exactly is broken with the MPL system and what the implications are is a point of contention among different stakeholder groups. Recent data demonstrate that medical liability premiums have been improving in recent years and the majority of premiums remained flat in 2010. General agreement still exists, however, that medical professional liability insurance premiums have become unaffordable for ma

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Albolino, Sara, Tommaso Bellandi, Simone Cappelletti, et al. "New Rules on Patient’s Safety and Professional Liability for the Italian Health Service." Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 20, no. 8 (2019): 615–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389201020666190408094016.

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Background:The phenomenon of clinical negligence claims has rapidly spread to United States, Canada and Europe assuming the dimensions and the severity of a pandemia. Consequently, the issues related to medical malpractice need to be studied from a transnational perspective since they raise similar problems in different legal systems.Methods:Over the last two decades, medical liability has become a prominent issue in healthcare policy and a major concern for healthcare economics in Italy. The failures of the liability system and the high cost of healthcare have led to considerable legislative

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Jha, Runa. "Getting sensitized about malpractice lawsuits in practice of Pathology." Journal of Pathology of Nepal 8, no. 2 (2018): 1427–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpn.v8i2.20994.

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Medical malpractice is defined as any act or omission by a physician during treatment of a atient that deviates from accepted norms of practice in the medical community and causes an injury to the patient. In the United States, Medical malpractice is a specific subset of tort law that deals with professional negligence. “Tort” is the Norman word for “wrong,” and tort law is a body of law that creates and provides remedies for civil wrongs that are distinct from ontractual duties or criminal wrongs.Although the laws of medical malpractice differ significantly between nations, as a broad general

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Siegal, Gil, Michelle M. Mello, and David M. Studdert. "Adjudicating Severe Birth Injury Claims in Florida and Virginia: The Experience of a Landmark Experiment in Personal Injury Compensation." American Journal of Law & Medicine 34, no. 4 (2008): 493–537. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009885880803400402.

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Policy debates over medical malpractice in the United States involve a complex amalgam of legal doctrine, public demands to address the problem of medical errors, and the interests of various stakeholder groups. Most parties can agree, however, that the current system for compensating medical injury performs poorly. It falls short of achieving its two main goals: compensation and deterrence. The current system of tort liability is “neither sensitive nor specific in its distribution of compensation:” the vast majority of patients injured by negligent medical care do not receive compensation, ye

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Vartian, B. A. "41. The cost of mistakes: Penalties for surgical malpractice through the ages." Clinical & Investigative Medicine 30, no. 4 (2007): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v30i4.2801.

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In recent years the United States has undergone what some have termed a malpractice “crisis”. It has affected Canada and other parts of the world to a lesser extent and has been the subject of much debate. Throughout history the idea of what constitutes negligent surgical care and its consequences has not been an immutable concept but rather has fluctuated between seemingly polar extremes.  In ancient Mesopotamia, the Hammurabi code describes bountiful rewards for successful surgery contrasted with mutilation or death for failed attempts. In ancient Egypt we see the extremes of strict do

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Himmelstein, David U., and Steffie Woolhandler. "Socialized Medicine: A Solution to the Cost Crisis in Health Care in the United States." International Journal of Health Services 16, no. 3 (1986): 339–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/03fk-fn53-2p5b-erd5.

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Despite growing concern with cost containment, most health policy analysts have ignored vast potential savings on medically irrelevant spending for excess administration, profits, high physician incomes, marketing, and legal involvement in medicine. Indeed, many recent reforms encourage administrative hypertrophy, entrepreneurialism and litigation. A universal national health program could abolish billing and consequently the need for much of the administrative apparatus of health care, and decrease spending for profits and marketing. In this article we analyze the administrative savings that

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Sharpe, Daphne K., Jasmine K. Hall, Sochima Ochije, and Rahn K. Bailey. "Understanding forensic psychiatry in healthcare practices and collaboration between legal nurse consultants and physicians." Medico-Legal Journal 86, no. 1 (2017): 32–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025817217740299.

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In 2000, the Institute of Medicine stunned many professionals with their published report that noted the vast number of deaths that occur each year in hospitals across the United States which reach as many as 98,000. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the healthcare arena faces litigious issues regularly, with some specialties budgets being significantly impacted by the cost of maintaining liability insurance. Legal Nurse Consultants and forensic physicians working in tandem but who work independently from treating clinicians can carry out forensic independent medical examinations (IME).

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Barry, Michael J., Pamela H. Wescott, Ellen J. Reifler, Yuchaio Chang, and Benjamin W. Moulton. "Reactions of Potential Jurors to a Hypothetical Malpractice Suit Alleging Failure to Perform a Prostate-Specific Antigen Test." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 36, no. 2 (2008): 396–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2008.00283.x.

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Screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test is controversial, as evidence to date has not demonstrated such screening does more good than harm. While the potential benefit of PSA screening on reducing prostate cancer mortality has not been documented in randomized trials, many risks of PSA screening have been well documented. These risks include a substantially higher risk of a prostate cancer diagnosis over a screenee’s lifetime, false-positive and false-negative test results, possible complications from biopsies done in response to suspicious test result

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Benoit, Brien G., T. David Marshall, Leslie P. Ivan, Pierre Forcier, and Kenneth G. Evans. "Legal Issues in the Practice of Neurology and Neurosurgery." Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques 17, no. 4 (1990): 434–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0317167100031036.

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Canadians are suing their doctors for malpractice, at three times the rate they were 15 years ago, and during that period awards to injured patients have quadrupled in size. Since the middle 1970's when the first medical malpractice “crisis” occurred in the United States, Canadian clinical neuroscientists have felt increasingly threatened by the prospect of a lawsuit for negligence. Since medicine is intrinsically a risk taking business, adverse outcomes are inevitable. Nevertheless, accusations of negligence and carelessness set out in a Statement of Claim causes considerable stress for the d

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Gralton, Sean H. "Nevada Court Clarifies Recovery in Wrongful Birth Claim." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 23, no. 3 (1995): 295–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1995.tb01367.x.

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On March 30, 1995, the Supreme Court of Nevada, in Greco v. United States, determined that medical professionals who fail to make a timely diagnosis of gross and disabling fetal defects, thereby denying a pregnant woman her right to terminate a pregnancy, had acted negligently, and a malpractice claim could be brought against them. The court supported the plaintiff's claim of “wrongful birth,” but determined that the disabled child born to the plaintiff has no personal cause of action for “wrongful life.” Sundi Greco, the plaintiff, alleged that her doctors at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada f

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Voudris, Konstantinos V., and Mladen I. Vidovich. "Medicolegal implications of radial and femoral access for coronary angiography and intervention in 2016: Focus on retroperitoneal hemorrhage." Journal of Translational Internal Medicine 4, no. 1 (2016): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jtim-2016-0007.

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Abstract Background and Objectives Retroperitoneal hemorrhage is a rare but serious complication of transfemoral approach (TFA) and TFA percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Radial approach for coronary angiography and intervention (transradial approach, TRA) is associated with lower access site complications and reduced blood transfusion rates. Retroperitoneal bleeding has not been described with TRA. This study sought to evaluate the relationship between femoral access for coronary angiography (TFA) and PCI-induced retroperitoneal hemorrhage and the resulting medical litigation in the Un

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Raggio, Blake S., William C. Harris, Ryan D. Winters, and H. D. Graham. "Analysis of Factors Associated With Malpractice Litigation in Rhinoplasty." American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery 36, no. 3 (2019): 151–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0748806819827408.

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Rhinoplasty, the third most common cosmetic surgical procedure in the United States, represents the second most litigated facial plastic surgery procedure. Previous examinations of litigation specific to rhinoplasty are limited. The objective of this study was to comprehensively evaluate rhinoplasty malpractice litigation over the past 30 years and to investigate the financial burden of medical malpractice litigation associated with rhinoplasty, as well as factors that contribute to litigation and negative defendant outcomes. Jury verdict and payment reports related to rhinoplasty malpractice

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Shah, Suparna N., Arianna V. Ramirez, Kareem B. Haroun, and Mohamad R. Chaaban. "Medical Liability in Sinus Surgery: A Westlaw Database Analysis From 2000 to 2017." American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy 34, no. 5 (2020): 642–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1945892420920479.

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Background Medical malpractice occurs when a hospital or health-care provider through negligent act or omission results in an injury to a patient. More than 50% of otolaryngologists have faced at least 1 claim, with rhinology being the most litigated subspecialty. This study aims to analyze medical litigation trends in Rhinology from 2000 to 2017 in the United States. Methods The Westlaw database was reviewed from 2000 to 2017. Data were compiled on the demographics of the plaintiffs, procedures, nature of damages, legal allegations, and the use of expert witnesses, physician demographics/prac

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King, Michael W. "Health Care Efficiencies." American Journal of Law & Medicine 43, no. 4 (2017): 426–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0098858817753407.

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Despite the U.S. substantially outspending peer high income nations with almost 18% of GDP dedicated to health care, on any number of statistical measurements from life expectancy to birth rates to chronic disease,1 the U.S. achieves inferior health outcomes. In short, Americans receive a very disappointing return on investment on their health care dollars, causing economic and social strain.2 Accordingly, the debates rage on: what is the top driver of health care spending? Among the culprits: poor communication and coordination among disparate providers, paperwork required by payors and regul

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Jiam, Nicole Tin-Lok, Michol A. Cooper, Heather G. Lyu, Kenzo Hirose, and Martin A. Makary. "Surgical malpractice claims in the United States." Journal of Healthcare Risk Management 33, no. 4 (2014): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhrm.21140.

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SCHLENKER, THOMAS L. "United States Physicians in Nicaragua." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 139, no. 5 (1985): 440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1985.02140070014007.

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McMichael, Benjamin J., Barbara J. Safriet, and Peter I. Buerhaus. "The Extraregulatory Effect of Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws on Physician Malpractice Rates." Medical Care Research and Review 75, no. 3 (2017): 312–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077558716686889.

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Patients can hold physicians directly or vicariously liable for the malpractice of nurse practitioners under their supervision. Restrictive scope-of-practice laws governing nurse practitioners can ease patients’ legal burdens in establishing physician liability. We analyze the effect of restrictive scope-of-practice laws on the number of malpractice payments made on behalf of physicians between 1999 and 2012. Enacting less restrictive scope-of-practice laws decreases the number of payments made by physicians by as much as 31%, suggesting that restrictive scope-of-practice laws have a salient e

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Bixenstine, Paul J., Andrew D. Shore, Winta T. Mehtsun, Andrew M. Ibrahim, Julie A. Freischlag, and Martin A. Makary. "Catastrophic Medical Malpractice Payouts in the United States." Journal For Healthcare Quality 36, no. 4 (2014): 43–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jhq.12011.

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Orosco, R. K., J. Talamini, and D. C. Chang. "Surgical Malpractice in the United States 1990-2006." Journal of Vascular Surgery 57, no. 2 (2013): 602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2012.12.016.

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Orosco, Ryan K., Jonathan Talamini, David C. Chang, and Mark A. Talamini. "Surgical Malpractice in the United States, 1990–2006." Journal of the American College of Surgeons 215, no. 4 (2012): 480–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.04.028.

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Susila, Muh Endriyo. "Medical Malpractice System in the United States of America: Lesson to Learn for Indonesia." Yuridika 36, no. 2 (2021): 367. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/ydk.v36i2.24591.

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A system that serves the liability and settlement of medical malpractice disputes or commonly referred to as medical malpractice system has been established in many countries to respond the rise of medical malpractice claims against doctors. Medical malpractice system in the United States of America (the USA) has been relatively well developed as compared to other countries. Beside adopting pretrial screening process in medical malpractice litigation, various methods of alternative to litigation have been developed in the USA. This paper aims to explore the development of the medical malpracti

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Missios, Symeon, and Kimon Bekelis. "Spine surgery and malpractice liability in the United States." Spine Journal 15, no. 7 (2015): 1602–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spinee.2015.03.041.

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Roberts, Brandon, and Irving Hoch. "Malpractice litigation and medical costs in the United States." Health Economics 18, no. 12 (2009): 1394–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1436.

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Bal, B. Sonny. "An Introduction to Medical Malpractice in the United States." Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 467, no. 2 (2008): 339–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11999-008-0636-2.

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Kachalia, Allen, Niteesh K. Choudhry, and David M. Studdert. "Physician Responses to the Malpractice Crisis: From Defense to Offense." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 33, no. 3 (2005): 416–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2005.tb00509.x.

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Medical science brings innovations in patient care at an astounding pace today - new chemotherapeutic agents, coated stents, and minimally invasive surgery are just few recent examples. For physicians, though, the specter of malpractice liability can overshadow the marvel of practicing in this era. Many physicians are working in a volatile liability environment; they face spiraling costs for malpractice insurance, have difficulties purchasing liability coverage at any price, and see record payouts in a growing number of claims against their colleagues. The American Medical Association (AMA) ha

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Arthur, D. C. "Emergency physicians in the United States Military." Annals of Emergency Medicine 43, no. 5 (2004): 672. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.01.012.

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