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Flattening the Trajectory of Health Care Spending: Foster Efficient and Accountable Providers — Nov 15, 2012

Providers can dramatically improve American health care by focusing on value instead of volume, eliminating wasteful and inappropriate care, applying the best available evidence to their practices, and enhancing patient safety.

When Patients Don't Take Their Medicine: What Role Do Doctors Play in Promoting Prescription Adherence? — Aug 28, 2012

Analyses indicated that although physicians uniformly felt responsible for assessing and promoting adherence to prescriptions, only a minority of them asked detailed questions about adherence.

Most Physicians Will Face Malpractice Claims, But Risk of Making Payment Is Low — 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.

Does Improved Patient Safety Reduce Malpractice Litigation? — Apr 7, 2010

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

Room for improvement: Strong patient safety systems could limit health, social and economic harms from medical error — Sep 22, 2009

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.

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