Medical malpractice and the U.S. health care system / edited by William M. Sage, Rogan Kersh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sage, William M., editor.

Kersh, Rogan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--Malpractice--United States.

Physicians.

Physicians--Malpractice.

United States.

Physicians' malpractice insurance--United States.

Physicians' malpractice insurance.

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 393 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

Medical Malpractice & the U.S. Health Care System

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Medical malpractice lawsuits are common and controversial in the United States. Since early 2002, doctors' insurance premiums for malpractice coverage have soared. As Congress and state governments debate laws intended to stabilize the cost of insurance, doctors continue to blame lawyers and lawyers continue to blame doctors and insurance companies. This book, which is the capstone of three years' comprehensive research funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, goes well beyond the conventional debate over tort reform and connects medical liability to broader trends and goals in American health policy. Contributions from leading figures in health law and policy marshal the best available information, present new empirical evidence, and offer cutting-edge analysis of potential reforms involving patient safety, liability insurance and tort litigation.

Contents:

The medical malpractice system : structure and performance / Michelle M. Mello and David M. Studdert

Malpractice reform as a health policy problem / William M. Sage

Medical malpractice and the new politics of health care / Rogan Kersh

Who pays when malpractice premiums rise? / Mark V. Pauly

The effects of the U.S. malpractice system on the cost and quality of care / David J. Becker and Daniel P. Kessler

Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine : what does the future hold? / Troyen A. Brennan, Michelle M. Mello, and David M. Studdert

Medical liability and the culture of technology / Peter D. Jacobson

Promoting fairness in the medical malpractice system / Maxwell J. Mehlman

Caps and the construction of damages in medical malpractice cases / Catherine M. Sharkey

Expertise and the legal process / Catherine T. Struve

Disclosure and fair resolution of adverse events / Carol B. Liebman and Chris Stern Hyman

Enterprise liability in the twenty-first century / Randall R. Bovbjerg and Robert Berenson

Private contractual alternatives to malpractice liability / Jennifer Arlen

Medical malpractice insurance reform : "enterprise insurance" and some alternatives / Tom Baker

Governments as insurers in professional and hospital liability insurance markets / Frank A. Sloan and Charles E. Eesley

Medicare-led malpractice reform / William M. Sage and Eleanor D. Kinney.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780511617836

Access Restriction:

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