Medical Malpractice : Prevention, Insurance and Coverage Options / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Contributor:

SourceOECD (Online service)

Series:

Policy issues in insurance 19900821 ; no.11.

Policy Issues in Insurance 19900821 ; no.11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance and investment.

Social issues, migration, health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 pages).

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Confidence in a country's health care system requires indemnification and deterrence systems that adequately cover liability, provide fair compensation for injury, and deter medical malpractices. Over the last years, in many OECD countries, these systems have experienced difficulties resulting in high-risk specialty physicians and surgeons leaving the practice and the development of expensive and useless-if not risky-defensive medicine. This publication surveys and assesses various types of mechanisms and reforms that best limit and indemnify medical accidents. Reasons for difficulties faced by some compensation and prevention regimes, given the specificities of national circumstances and in particular of health care systems, are examined. The study offers a series of unique and focused policy options for establishing more efficient indemnification and deterrence systems to cope with medical accidents.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9789264029057

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.