Maternity Care and Liability: Pressing Problems, Substantive Solutions

Maternity care and liability: pressing problems, substantive solutions.

BACKGROUND This paper summarizes a new report presenting the best available research about the impact of the liability environment on maternity care, and policy options for improving this environment. Improved understanding of these matters can help to transcend polarized discourse and guide policy intervention. METHODS We used a best available evidence approach and drew on more recent empiri...

Professional liability in the 1980s: problems and solutions.

AI the first Convocation of the American College of Surgeons in 1913, President John M.T. Finney said in his Presidential Address : "The history of surgery in the United States and Canada is opened to a new page. When at some future time the historian comes to write 011 that page the record of events that have led up to this meeting, he will there record the taking of another step in the progre...

Several Pressing Problems in Hypertext Privacy

Current technical discussions of Internet privacy are often discussions about the hypertext protocol stack and things that people are doing with it: HTTP, HTTPS, JavaScript, HTML5, Flash/Silverlight/JVM, social networking and (partially) geolocation. Although there are other subjects that probably deserve just as much attention — such as wireless protocols and mobile devices — this position pap...

Respectful Maternity Care Toolkit

The components of this toolkit can be used by clinicians who are providing maternity care, trainers or educators of clinicians who will be providing maternity care, supervisors of clinicians who provide maternity care, program managers who develop and manage programs with a maternity care component, and by policy makers or other key stakeholders who want to promote RMC in the programs for which...

Pressing Problems of Cardio - Vascular Pathology