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November 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1998 to 2000, staff at the American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly surveyed managed care plans on their current practices for resolving enrollee-plan disputes. The project emphasized disputes involving older people and recommended workable options for improving dispute resolution.
January 9, 2013 | Program Result
In 2012, the Center for Applied Research reconvened nurses and physician representatives of associations who had participated in an unsuccessful attempt to produce consensus on interprofessional collaboration, to draw lessons from the project.
April 21, 2011 | Journal Article
New models of response to medical injuries which focus on improving delivery of safe and efficient patient care hold promise.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Concerns about reducing the rate of growth of health expenditures have reignited interest in medical liability reforms and their potential to save money by reducing the practice of defensive medicine. This article identifies the various components of liability system costs, generates national estimates for each component, and discusses the level of evidence available to support the estimates.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Physicians contend that the threat of malpractice lawsuits forces them to practice defensive medicine, which in turn raises the cost of health care.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Apologies are rare in the medical world, where health care providers fear that admissions of guilt or expressions of regret could be used by plaintiffs in malpractice lawsuits.
April 15, 2010 | Journal Article
The authors examine three "disclosure and offer" models which may balance the interests of providers and patients better than the existing malpractice system.
August 12, 2009 | Journal Article
This article looks at how medical errors are handled in the health professions and suggests that full disclosure of the mistake, in addition to an apology and follow-up, may be the best way to approach this sensitive topic.