Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System. /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8838163 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Framing Medical Malpractice as a Health Policy Issue
- 1. The medical malpractice system: structure and performance
- 2. Malpractice reform as a health policy problem
- 3. Medical malpractice and the new politics of health care
- Part II. The Health Policy Impact of Medical Malpractice
- 4. Who pays when malpractice premiums rise?
- 5. The effects of the US malpractice system on the cost and quality of care
- 6. Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine: what does the future hold?
- 7. Medical liability and the culture of technology
- Part III. Malpractice Reforms that Solve the Right Problems
- 8. Promoting fairness in the medical malpractice system
- 9. Caps and the construction of damages in medical malpractice cases
- 10. Expertise and the legal process
- 11. Disclosure and fair resolution of adverse events
- Part IV. In Search of a 'New Paradigm'
- 12. Enterprise liability in the 21st century
- 13. Private contractual alternatives to malpractice liability
- 14. Medical malpractice insurance reform: 'enterprise insurance' and some alternatives
- 15. Governments as insurers in professional and hospital liability insurance markets
- 16. Medicare-led malpractice reform