2012-05-24T20:52:52Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/medical-malpractice.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9610.html Sep 16, 2011 Sep 16, 2011

The most comprehensive analysis of the risk of malpractice claims by physician specialty in more than two decades finds that U.S. physicians have a greater than 75% career-long risk of facing litigation. In some specialties, doctors can be virtually certain of a lawsuit over the course of their careers. However, the vast majority of those claims will not result in payment to a plaintiff.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100158.html Aug 17, 2011 Aug 17, 2011

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.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/07/06/JAMA.html Jul 6, 2011 Jul 6, 2011

From the standpoint of policy makers, the basic challenge is to ensure that liability concerns do not derail the clinical value of new CDS technology, write Michael Greenberg and M. Susan Ridgely.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100137.html Jun 30, 2011 Jun 30, 2011

Clinical decision support (CDS) refers to electronic technology used to enhance clinical decision making. The basic challenge for policymakers interested in promoting adoption of CDS is to ensure that liability concerns do not derail the clinical value of new CDS technology.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/04/15.html Apr 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010

Reducing the number of preventable patient injuries in California hospitals from 2001 to 2005 was associated with a corresponding drop in malpractice claims against physicians.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR824.html Apr 14, 2010 Apr 14, 2010

<p>Reducing the number of preventable patient injuries in California hospitals from 2001 to 2005 was associated with a corresponding drop in malpractice claims against physicians.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9524.html Apr 7, 2010 Apr 7, 2010

<p>Investigates the relationship between safety outcomes in hospitals and malpractice claiming against providers, using data for California hospitals and insurers from 2001 through 2005.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR562z17.html Oct 12, 2009 Oct 12, 2009

This document explores how changing medical liability laws to reduce the frequency and severity of claims would affect health system performance along nine dimensions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9472.html Sep 22, 2009 Sep 22, 2009

<p>RAND Europe reviewed the problem of patient harm in Europe, assessed expected effects of three policy action areas to improve safety and modelled the potential health benefits that could be achieved by reducing numbers of harmful events.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090918.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>The authors use variation in the generosity of local juries to identify the causal impact of malpractice liability on medical costs, mortality, and social welfare.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091212.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>Analyzes effects of noneconomic damages caps and attorney fee limits on the ability of people injured by negligent physicians to retain qualified lawyers to represent them</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9280.html Aug 23, 2007 Aug 23, 2007

This fact sheet describes a study that found that policies targeting physicians' medical malpractice payment histories as a way to deter medical malpractice are ineffective, mainly because paying physicians are not the negligent ones.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070337.html Feb 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007

<p>Easily gathered physician characteristics can be helpful in designing targeted quality of care improvement policies.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070320.html Feb 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007

<p>Some states use physicians' histories of medical malpractice payments to try to reduce the incidence of medical malpractice (and for other reasons). At least two types of policies fall into this category: using payments to decide which physicians will be investigated, and possibly sanctioned, by the state medical board; and making information about individual physicians' payment histories available to the public.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9071.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010707.html Dec 31, 2000 Dec 31, 2000

<p>Leading patient safety proposals promote the design and implementation of error prevention strategies that target systems used to deliver care and eschew individual blame.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000304.html Dec 31, 1999 Dec 31, 1999

<p>The incidence and types of adverse events in Utah and Colorado in 1992 were similar to those in New York State in 1984.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9030.html Dec 31, 1998 Dec 31, 1998

Sought to provide evidence illuminating the questions of prevalence and factors leading to adoption in a study of practices in California.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19950063.html Jun 30, 1995 Jun 30, 1995

Hospital personnel willingly participated in the detection and investigation of drug use errors and were able to identify underlying systems failures. The most common defects were in systems to disseminate knowledge about drugs and to make drug and patient information readily accessible at the time it is needed. Systems changes to improve dissemination and display of drug and patient data should make errors in the use of drugs less likely.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19950062.html Dec 31, 1994 Dec 31, 1994

ADEs are a major cause of iatrogenic injury, many are preventable. Improvement of systems by which drugs are ordered and administered could prevent many of these events and might even reduce costs.