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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"tort reform"”.
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Topics in health economics
… infant health. My third paper is ""The Effect of Tort Reform on Patient Safety,"" co-authored with Sarah Miller. Tort reform reduces the liability for medical errors and may create moral hazard for physicians and hospitals. In this paper, we measure the effect of tort reform on a large class of …
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The Essays on Unintended Consequences of Public Policy
… 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 important population. …
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Assessing the Impact of Tort Reforms on Physician Supply Trends in Texas
… physician supply following the 2003 enactment of tort reforms in the state of Texas. Methods: The data used in this study are from the Texas Department of State Health Services. Interrupted time-series analysis evaluates the data for trends in regards to the number of physicians per 100,000 …
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Three essays on the effects of health policy on health care financing, demand, and provision
… of a rural health insurance program in China and tort reforms in the United States. Rural residents’ health status, health-seeking behaviors, financial burden, physicians’ practices, and total hospitalization charges are discussed in the three chapters respectively. The first chapter estimates the …
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Medical error: Overcoming barriers to truthful disclosure
… for erring health\r\nprofessionals, and reforming malpractice legislation. Although each of these explanations\r\nand solutions has its merits, all fail to adequately address the role of the culture of\r\nmedicine in perpetuating the reluctance to truthfully disclose medical errors and …