Physicians in the United States have serious concerns about the exorbitant cost of medical liability insurance. The expense continues to have a major impact on physician practice patterns and access to medical services in many communities. More than 30 years ago, difficulty in obtaining adequate and affordable medical liability coverage generated new legislative initiatives in many states, incl...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a communication and resolution approach to patient harm is associated with changes in medical liability processes and outcomes. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Administrative, safety, and risk management data from the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, from 2002 to 2014. STUDY DESIGN Single health system, interrupted time series design. Usi...

introduction: dental malpractice is the failure of a professional person to render appropriate services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows. since dental implants have gained a special place in modern dentistry and this new treatment is a costly one, paying more attention to the prevention of malpractice is more import...

introduction: medical claim is one of the most concerning subjects for both patients and physicians. in addition, it has lots of financial and nonfinancial costs for health care systems. to define the number and causes of medical claims against dentists of rasht since 2006 till 2011in guilan medical council. materials and methods: a retrospective cross - sectional study was performed since 2006...

Coreference resolution systems usually attempt to find a suitable antecedent for (almost) every noun phrase. Recent studies, however, show that many definite NPs are not anaphoric. The same claim, obviously, holds for the indefinites as well. In this study we try to learn automatically two classifications, and , relevant for this problem. We use a small training corpus (MUC-7), but also acquire...

A recent argument in favor of a free market in human organs claims that such a market enhances personal autonomy. I argue here that such a market would, on the contrary, actually compromise the autonomy of those most likely to sell their organs, namely, the least well off members of society. A Marxian-inspired notion of exploitation is deployed to show how, and in what sense, this is the case.

The dramatic rise in the incidence of malpractice claims over the past thirty years has revealed several problems with the U.S. system of medical dispute resolution. First, the sudden and unexpected increase in claims has created an insurance crisis wherein various medical specialists have had difficulty obtaining affordable insurance coverage. One such crisis occurred in Florida in the mid-198...