The medical tort system does not deter medical errors, compensates a small percentage of patients affected by negligent care, and is driving shortages in specialty care through rapidly rising insurance rates. New approaches, including an administrative system of health courts may address these issues and improve patient safety.
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Medical Malpractice Reform and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
December 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Tort reform has not led to health care cost savings for individuals, raising the question of why consumers should trade off legal rights without economic gains.
Facilitating and Impeding Factors for Physicians' Error Disclosure
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors performed a structured literature review to enhance understanding of factors that both impede and enhance disclosure of medical errors. They performed a MEDLINE search of related articles published between 1975 and 2004, which yielded 5, ...
Understanding Diagnostic Errors in Medicine
June 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors present a real-life case in which a patient's spinal cord compression was delayed to illustrate how "situational awareness" (SA) can be used to understand diagnostic errors in medicine. SA is defined as "a person's perception of the elem ...
An Empirically Derived Taxonomy of Factors Affecting Physicians' Willingness to Disclose Medical Errors
September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Physician disclosure of medical errors to institutions, patients and colleagues is important for patient safety, patient care and professional education, yet numerous factors pose impediments to disclosure. The authors of this article saw a need to ...
Beyond the Medical Record
May 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Medical record reports are not always sufficient for quantifying and understanding medical errors. Qualitative inquiries can be used to supplement and confirm large-scale quantitative data analyses. In this study 26 semi-structured interviews were c ...
Reporting Medical Errors to Improve Patient Safety
January 14, 2008 | Journal Article
In this study, the authors examined how physicians and other health care providers view error disclosure, how frequently they report errors, and what the obstacles to their reporting them might be.
The Locality Rule and the Physician's Dilemma
June 20, 2007 | Journal Article
Local Medical Practices vs the National Standard of Care.
Could Health Courts Provide An Answer on Malpractice Reform?
October 23, 2009 | Story
Health courts concept draws continued national attention.
Number of Malpractice Suits Being Challenged in Court Increases
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Northwestern University studied the impact of the National Practitioner Data Bank on the process of resolving medical malpractice claims.
Does Mediation Work Better Than Trial for Settling Medical Malpractice Cases?
September 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Wake Forest University School of Law conducted an evaluation of the use of court-ordered mediation as a strategy for resolving medical malpractice disputes.