This chapter reviews two areas of the medical regulation literature; the licensing of medical professionals and medical malpractice. The licensing literature draws upon a more general literature which explains the existence of regulation as reflecting the interests of either (1) the regulated profession, (2) the public, or (3) a combination of both the public and the profession. The major contr...

Introduction: Medical malpractice and prostate cancer screening are important issues in the current landscape of health care. We identified factors contributing to litigation in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. Methods: We used the Westlaw database to search for jury verdict reports using the term medical malpractice combined with prostate cancer with dates ranging from January 2000 to Decembe...

The United States medical malpractice regime is broken. Medical malpractice liability exists to serve two ends: it encourages efficient behavior by providers and compensates those harmed by the providers’ negligent acts or omissions.1 Unfortunately, empirical evidence shows that the system is exceedingly imperfect on both counts. The current malpractice regime distorts physician incentives in a...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS By matching the medical records of a random sample of 31,429 patients hospitalized in New York State in 1984 with statewide data on medical-malpractice claims, we identified patients who had filed claims against physicians and hospitals. These results were then compared with our findings, based on a review of the same medical records, regarding the incidence of injuries t...

BACKGROUND Physician health programmes (PHPs) are peer-assistance organizations that provide support to physicians struggling with addiction or with physical or mental health challenges. While the services they offer are setting new standards for recovery and care, they are not immune to public debate and criticism since some have concerns about those who are enrolled in, or have completed, suc...

erative neurologic injury, infection, hemorrhage, hematoma, and drug-related side effects. Complications can be resolved without any serious problems if the cause is detected early and adequate treatment provided. In this case, it is rare for the medical staff to take legal responsibilities. However, in cases of malpractice, civil and criminal penalties are unavoidable if negligence of the medi...

Title of Document: LEGISLATING HEALTHCARE QUALITY. Beomsoo Kim, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor, William N. Evans, Department of Economics Health care market has often been regulated by government legislation. A California law passed in 1999 regulating minimum nurse to patient ratios in hospital units is one of them. This legislation was prompted by results from previous resea...

T he paper (1) analyze malpractice data between 1991-2005 for 25 me dical specialties in USA. It is discussed the cumulative risk among phy sicians in high and low risk specialties. The age of physicians was 30-70 years (for estimate the cumulative risk career malpractice risk). The malpractice claim for all physicians was 7,4%/year and 1,6%/year of claim lead to a pay ments. 78% of all claim d...