The Clinton Administration's quest to revamp the nation's system of health care delivery has generated debate on many fronts. Cost, eligibility, scope of coverage, and financing are all vital concerns.1 We examine here a less visible, but no less important, issue: the impact of proposed health care reforms on the processes by which the tort system adjudicates medical malpractice claims. This pi...

Like all physicians, radiologists in the United States are subject to frequent and costly medical malpractice claims. Legal scholars and physicians concur that the US civil justice system is neither precise nor accurate in determining whether malpractice has truly occurred in cases in which claims are made. Sometimes, this inaccuracy is driven by biases inherent in medical expert-witness opinio...

INTRODUCTION The process by which the jurisprudence course was restructured at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College is chronicled. METHOD A Delphi process used to restructure the course is described, and the results of a student satisfaction survey are presented. RESULTS When asked "I think this material was clinically relevant," over 81% of the 76 students who respondents strongly ag...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the extent to which obstetric malpractice claims might be reduced by adherence to a limited number of specific practice patterns. METHODS We examined all 189 closed perinatal claims between 2000 and 2005 from a single, large, professional liability insurer. Each case was subjected to three separate analyses: 1) whether the adverse outcome was caused by substandard care, ...

Aim of the present paper is the review of the principal complications associated to endocrine neck surgery considering how expertise, full adoption of guidelines, appropriate technology and proper informed consent may limit the medicolegal claims at the light of the incoming new regulation of the medical professional legal responsibility. A literature search, using the Medline/PubMed database f...

BACKGROUND The medical peer-review committees and arbitration boards of the Medical Associations of the individual German federal states assess claims for damages arising from alleged medical malpractice. METHODS 189 panel proceedings concerning alleged malpractice in the treatment of fractures in children were evaluated on the basis of the available documentation and decisions. The proceedin...

BACKGROUND The loss of family physicians as obstetrics providers during the last decade has had a significant impact on access to obstetric services, especially for rural populations. The expense of malpractice premiums has been cited often as a reason for physicians' discontinuation of this service. METHODS Seventy-six family physicians in northern California who recently discontinued obstet...

introduction: dental malpractice is the failure of a professional person to render appropriate services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows. since dental implants have gained a special place in modern dentistry and this new treatment is a costly one, paying more attention to the prevention of malpractice is more import...

By many accounts, the United States is in the midst of its third medical malpractice “crisis.” Physicians in several states are facing high and rising premiums. The largest national medical malpractice carrier and some large multistate physician-backed liability firms have recently left the market. Rising premiums are traced largely to increases in claims severity. Capping malpractice payments ...