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Apr 9, 2014

The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Liability Insurance

Summarizes a report that identifies potential mechanisms through which health care reform might affect claim costs for several major types of liability coverage, especially auto insurance, workers’ compensation coverage, and medical malpractice.
Research

Apr 9, 2014

How Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Affect Liability Insurance Costs?

This report identifies potential mechanisms through which health care reform might affect claim costs for several major types of liability coverage, especially auto insurance, workers' compensation coverage, and medical malpractice.
Research

Jan 1, 2014

Medical Malpractice Reform: Noneconomic Damages Caps Reduced Payments 15 Percent, with Varied Effects by Specialty

The impact of medical malpractice reforms on the average size of malpractice payments in specific physician specialties is unknown and subject to debate.
Research

Jan 1, 2014

Time of Day and Decision to Prescribe Antibiotics

We found that primary care clinicians' likelihood of prescribing antibiotics for ARIs increased as clinic sessions wore on, consistent with the hypothesis that decision fatigue progressively impairs clinicians' ability to resist ordering inappropriate treatments.
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Jan 1, 2013

On Average, Physicians Spend Nearly 11 Percent of Their 40-Year Careers with an Open, Unresolved Malpractice Claim

The average physician spends nearly 11 percent of an assumed forty-year career with an unresolved, open malpractice claim. The long time it takes for a case is resolved is distressing for both doctor and patient.
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Dec 1, 2012

Medico-legal Risk Associated with Pediatric Mental Health Telephone Consultation Programs

In this survey of six state mental health telephone consultation program directors, we report the annual number of children referred for consultation and the number of lawsuits against consultant clinicians.
Commentary

Jul 6, 2012

Could Liability Concerns Derail Clinical Decision Support?

Computerized clinical decision support (CDS) systems have been developed to enhance physician decisionmaking and reduce the incidence of avoidable medical errors. Drug-drug interaction warnings are a mainstay of CDS systems, but they give rise to a fundamental problem that limits the utility of the systems to date.
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Jun 19, 2012

The Appropriateness of Recommendations for Hysterectomy

The authors assessed the appropriateness of recommendations for hysterectomies done for nonemergency and nononcologic indications for 497 California women. Seventy percent of the hysterectomies were judged to have been recommended inappropriately.
Research

Jun 1, 2012

Too Many Alerts, Too Much Liability: Sorting Through the Malpractice Implications of Drug-Drug Interaction Clinical Decision Support

New electronic clinical decision support (CDS) systems are intended to reduce medical errors but sometimes have the unexpected and perverse effect of overwhelming physicians with potential warnings about trivial events, particularly regarding drug-drug interactions.
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Jun 1, 2012

Outcomes of Medical Malpractice Litigation Against US Physicians

The risk of medical malpractice varies substantially according to physician specialty.
Research Summary

Sep 14, 2011

Malpractice Risk, by Physician Specialty

Large variations exist across medical specialties in the frequency of malpractice claims and the amount paid on them. Most physicians face at least one claim during their careers, but most claims do not result in a payment.
Research

Aug 18, 2011

Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty

The likelihood of malpractice suits and the size of indemnity payments vary across specialties, but by age 65, 75% of physicians in low-risk specialties had faced a malpractice claim, as compared with 99% of physicians in high-risk specialties.

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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Liability Insurance

How Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Affect Liability Insurance Costs?

Medical Malpractice Reform: Noneconomic Damages Caps Reduced Payments 15 Percent, with Varied Effects by Specialty

Time of Day and Decision to Prescribe Antibiotics

On Average, Physicians Spend Nearly 11 Percent of Their 40-Year Careers with an Open, Unresolved Malpractice Claim

Medico-legal Risk Associated with Pediatric Mental Health Telephone Consultation Programs

Could Liability Concerns Derail Clinical Decision Support?

The Appropriateness of Recommendations for Hysterectomy

Too Many Alerts, Too Much Liability: Sorting Through the Malpractice Implications of Drug-Drug Interaction Clinical Decision Support

Outcomes of Medical Malpractice Litigation Against US Physicians

Malpractice Risk, by Physician Specialty

Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty

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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Liability Insurance

How Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Affect Liability Insurance Costs?

Medical Malpractice Reform: Noneconomic Damages Caps Reduced Payments 15 Percent, with Varied Effects by Specialty

Time of Day and Decision to Prescribe Antibiotics

On Average, Physicians Spend Nearly 11 Percent of Their 40-Year Careers with an Open, Unresolved Malpractice Claim

Medico-legal Risk Associated with Pediatric Mental Health Telephone Consultation Programs

Could Liability Concerns Derail Clinical Decision Support?

The Appropriateness of Recommendations for Hysterectomy

Too Many Alerts, Too Much Liability: Sorting Through the Malpractice Implications of Drug-Drug Interaction Clinical Decision Support

Outcomes of Medical Malpractice Litigation Against US Physicians

Malpractice Risk, by Physician Specialty

Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty

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