Medical malpractice and the U.S. health care system /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 393 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Physicians -- Malpractice -- United States. Physicians' malpractice insurance -- United States. Medical care -- United States. Liability, Legal. Malpractice -- legislation & jurisprudence. Insurance, Liability -- legislation & jurisprudence. Medical care. Physicians -- Malpractice. Physicians' malpractice insurance. United States. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11813806

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Other authors / contributors:	Sage, William M. Kersh, Rogan.
ISBN:	0511241739 9780511241734 9780511242182 0511242182 0511239610 9780511239618 9780511617836 0511617836 9786610567898 6610567891 0521849322 9780521849326 0521614112 9780521614115 0521849322 0521614112 9780521849326 9780521614115
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-388) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Medical malpractice and the U.S. health care system. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006
Standard no.:	9780521849326 9780521614115

Table of 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.

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