Medical Malpractice

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Research

Sep 23, 2022

Do Noneconomic Damage Caps Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums? Evidence from North Carolina

The impact of medical malpractice reforms, especially caps on noneconomic damages, is of special interest to policymakers and physicians. This study uses data from North Carolina to examine how caps implemented in noncrisis periods affect malpractice premiums.
Research

Dec 11, 2020

Unintended Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market

This article explains a surprising effect of tort liability in the market for prescription drugs: punitive damages shift liability from doctors to drug companies, but not when physician malpractice liability is limited."
Research

Dec 18, 2017

The Impact of State Medical Malpractice Reform on Individual-Level Health Care Expenditures

Laws limiting malpractice payments may lower state health care expenditures by between 3-4%.
Research

Jan 3, 2017

Progress at the Intersection of Patient Safety and Medical Liability: Insights from the AHRQ Patient Safety and Medical Liability Demonstration Program

Understanding adverse events as the result of complex "systems" failures--rather than of individual negligence--may improve patient safety.
Research

Jul 12, 2016

Above All 'Do No Harm': How Shall We Avoid Errors in Medicine?

This editorial comments on an article in the same journal that demonstrates (through the use of hospital-based adverse drug events) that errors in medicine are prevalent and often preventable.
Research

Apr 7, 2015

Emergency Physician Perceptions of Medically Unnecessary Advanced Diagnostic Imaging

A substantial proportion of advanced imaging studies ordered by emergency physicians may be medically unnecessary.
Research

Apr 7, 2015

Emergency Physician Perceptions of Shared Decision-Making

A substantial proportion of advanced imaging studies ordered by emergency physicians may be medically unnecessary.
Press

Oct 15, 2014

Making It More Difficult to Sue Physicians for Malpractice May Not Reduce 'Defensive Medicine'

Malpractice reform has been advocated by many experts as a key to reining in health care costs. Three states raised the standard for malpractice in the emergency room to gross negligence, but that did not translate into less-expensive care.
Data Viz

Oct 9, 2014

How Proposition 46 May Affect California

Describes how changes brought about by California Prop 46 may affect patients, doctors, plaintiffs, lawyers, the health care industry, and the public.
Research

Oct 1, 2014

The Effect of Malpractice Reform on Emergency Department Care

Many believe that fear of malpractice lawsuits drives physicians to order otherwise unnecessary care and that legal reforms could reduce such wasteful spending.
Research

Sep 30, 2014

The Impact of Tort Reform, Medicare Plan Choice, and Geography on Health Care Processes, Outcomes, and Expenditures

Explores structural determinants of health care processes, outcomes, and expenditures.
Press

Apr 9, 2014

Affordable Care Act Could Change Costs for Auto, Malpractice, Other Liability Insurance

As more Americans become newly covered under the ACA, the cost of providing automobile insurance, workers compensation, and homeowners insurance may decline. But an increase in the number of people using the health care system may trigger an increase in the number of medical malpractice claims.

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Do Noneconomic Damage Caps Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums? Evidence from North Carolina

Unintended Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market

The Impact of State Medical Malpractice Reform on Individual-Level Health Care Expenditures

Progress at the Intersection of Patient Safety and Medical Liability: Insights from the AHRQ Patient Safety and Medical Liability Demonstration Program

Above All 'Do No Harm': How Shall We Avoid Errors in Medicine?

Emergency Physician Perceptions of Medically Unnecessary Advanced Diagnostic Imaging

Emergency Physician Perceptions of Shared Decision-Making

Making It More Difficult to Sue Physicians for Malpractice May Not Reduce 'Defensive Medicine'

How Proposition 46 May Affect California

The Effect of Malpractice Reform on Emergency Department Care

The Impact of Tort Reform, Medicare Plan Choice, and Geography on Health Care Processes, Outcomes, and Expenditures

Affordable Care Act Could Change Costs for Auto, Malpractice, Other Liability Insurance

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Medical Malpractice

Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

Error

Do Noneconomic Damage Caps Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums? Evidence from North Carolina

Unintended Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market

The Impact of State Medical Malpractice Reform on Individual-Level Health Care Expenditures

Progress at the Intersection of Patient Safety and Medical Liability: Insights from the AHRQ Patient Safety and Medical Liability Demonstration Program

Above All 'Do No Harm': How Shall We Avoid Errors in Medicine?

Emergency Physician Perceptions of Medically Unnecessary Advanced Diagnostic Imaging

Emergency Physician Perceptions of Shared Decision-Making

Making It More Difficult to Sue Physicians for Malpractice May Not Reduce 'Defensive Medicine'

How Proposition 46 May Affect California

The Effect of Malpractice Reform on Emergency Department Care

The Impact of Tort Reform, Medicare Plan Choice, and Geography on Health Care Processes, Outcomes, and Expenditures

Affordable Care Act Could Change Costs for Auto, Malpractice, Other Liability Insurance

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