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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Medical Malpractice"”.
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Medical malpractice and physician discipline: Lessons from Indiana
… of two health care quality assurance mechanisms: medical malpractice (“med mal”) claiming, and the physician licensing/disciplinary system. In the mid-1970s, Indiana adopted a comprehensive package of med mal reforms, including a medical review panel, a total damages cap, and a patient …
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Medical malpractice: efficiency of the negligence standard of physician liability
During the past decade medical malpractice litigation has created problems and concern within the medical and legal professions, the malpractice insurance industry, and for healthcare patients. The purpose of this dissertation was to analyze and evaluate the ability of the negligence standard of …
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Exploring potential reforms to address the high costs of medical malpractice litigation in South Africa
For many years, medical malpractice claims have threatened the effective governance of health care sectors the world over. South Africa is not exempt from the effects of this phenomenon. The effects of increasing medical malpractice claims and their associated costs threaten the effective …
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Recovering for a loss of a chance of survival: loss of a chance in South African medical malpractice
… into South African law, specifically within the medical malpractice field. This doctrine allows for a physician to be held delictually liable for causing a loss of a chance of recovery or survival in medical misdiagnosis cases where a physician negligently failed to diagnose a curable disease, …
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Three essays on health economics and international trade
… An important but under-researched issue for medical malpractice (med-mal) litigation is how physicians' previous medical malpractice experiences affect their behaviour. Using Florida data on closed med-mal claims, I find that if physicians have prior paid claims, their current litigation is …
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The concept of medical negligence and its litigation process; a comparison between the UK and the Saudi Arabian jurisdictions
Medical negligence or medical malpractice is as old as the medical practice itself. In the UK, both concepts have evolved and transformed over the years. Medical negligence litigation process in the UK is as clear as the English law itself and its accompanying procedural rules. Conversely, the …
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The Essays on Unintended Consequences of Public Policy
… individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and likely settlement size. I focus on changes in the value of settlements for those trying to receive quick compensation - an understudied but very …
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Pricked
… City Fashion District. When she begins to date a medical malpractice lawyer who offers to connect her in her field and make her tight financial situation a bit easier, she comes to find that Bradley isn't all he made himself out to be. His complicated family life and childhood trauma confronts …
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La loi sur l'assurance automobile, fait-elle échec à un recours en responsabilité médicale et/ou hospitalière?
… Automobile Jnsurance Act to show that an act of medical malpractice and/ or a hospital's breach of duty subsequent to a car accident is a new fact, independent of the use of the car, thus breaking the causal link with the automobile and precluding the application of the law, despite that this …
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Problems of tort litigation as a means of patient and consumer protection in health care systems
… means of protecting patients and consumers from medical malpractice. The system of tort litigation has contributed to the U.S. having the highest health care spending per capita of any nation, but it has not resulted in superior quality of care. This work argues that tort litigation in health …
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Medical Error Disclosure: A Content Analysis of State Legislation
<p>Medical error is a public health problem in the United States (U.S.), causing approximately 250,000 hospital deaths per year. Health care leaders and policy-makers have identified medical error disclosure as one of many viable evidence-based solutions to address the problem of medical error – …
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Healing the Effects of Medical Errors: A Vision of Justice as Wholeness
<p>Medical errors cannot be avoided completely even when employing the greatest care and applying the most sophisticated medical technologies. They occur when organizational, human, technical, or environmental factors lead to unintentional failures which result in recognizable physical, mental, …
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The imposition of punitive damages: a comparative analysis
… damages in other fields of law such as in medical malpractice and environmental liability in Thailand and other jurisdictions, particularly in the United States. This dissertation also explores in detail some potential methods of applying punitive damages, such as, the methodology of …
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Lunacy, leprosy and legislation: medical practice and colonial control at the Cape, c. 1820-1831
This paper examines a series of medical related topics within the context of the Cape Colony in the 1820s. The focus on these specific healthcare issues highlights broader themes in terms of authority, control and power in the governance of the Cape during this period. In addition, the thesis …
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INVESTIGATION OF INOSINE AND HYPOXANTHINE AS BIOMARKERS OF CARDIAC ISCHEMIA IN PLASMA OF NON-TRAUMATIC CHEST PAIN PATIENTS AND A RAPID ANALYTICAL SYSTEM FOR ASSESSMENT
… visit hospital emergency departments (ED) for medical evaluation. It is estimated that approximately 2-5% of these patients are experiencing acute cardiac ischemia, but due to the shortcomings of current test methods, they are incorrectly diagnosed and discharged without appropriate treatment …
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Topics in health economics
… the result of physician incentives rather than medical necessity. Increasingly, however, the medical literature is raising questions about possible correlations between increased CS use and negative health outcomes for children in later life. For example, CS changes the intestinal bacteria of …
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The Development of Medical Liability in Germany 1800–1945
Title: The Development of Medical Liability in Germany 1800-1945 Author: Colm Peter McGrath, Corpus Christi College Abstract: This thesis examines the development of medical liability in Germany during its intense formative period from 1800-1945. The focus is on how the fault requirement in civil …
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Medical error: Overcoming barriers to truthful disclosure
The Institute of Medicine’s report on medical errors revealed a degree of fallibility in health care that was previously unrecognized. One explanation for the\r\ngeneral ignorance about the threats to patient safety and actual harms to patients is that\r\nmany health-care providers are reluctant to …
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Análisis de las demandas de responsabilidad médica y su impacto en el sistema hospitalario surcolombiano: el caso de un hospital público de referencia en el periodo 2014 - 2019
El objetivo del estudio es caracterizar y analizar las demandas de responsabilidad médica y su afectación en el presupuesto en un hospital público de alta complejidad en Neiva a través del análisis de los procesos jurídicos fallados durante los años 2014 al 2019. En su metodología se realizó un …
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The Victim-Patient’s Search for Redress: Evaluating Responses to Patient Safety Incidents in Nigeria
… welfare of populations. Despite advancements in medical science and technology, the occurrence of preventable harm in healthcare settings continues to pose substantial challenges, undermining the fundamental responsibility of healthcare systems to “do no harm”. With a PSI rate of 42.8%, Nigeria …
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