| Variant title |
Medical malpractice and the US health care system |
| Variant title |
Medical malpractice and the United States health care system |
| Contents |
The medical malpractice system : structure and performance / Michelle M. Mello and David M. Studdert -- Malpractice reform as a health policy problem / William M. Sage -- Medical malpractice and the new politics of health care / Rogan Kersh -- Who pays when malpractice premiums rise? / Mark V. Pauly -- The effects of the U.S. malpractice system on the cost and quality of care / David J. Becker and Daniel P. Kessler -- Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine : what does the future hold? / Troyen A. Brennan, Michelle M. Mello, and David M. Studdert -- Medical liability and the culture of technology / Peter D. Jacobson -- Promoting fairness in the medical malpractice system / Maxwell J. Mehlman -- |
| Contents |
Caps and the construction of damages in medical malpractice cases / Catherine M. Sharkey -- Expertise and the legal process / Catherine T. Struve -- Disclosure and fair resolution of adverse events / Carol B. Liebman and Chris Stern Hyman -- Enterprise liability in the twenty-first century / Randall R. Bovbjerg and Robert Berenson -- Private contractual alternatives to malpractice liability / Jennifer Arlen -- Medical malpractice insurance reform : "enterprise insurance" and some alternatives / Tom Baker -- Governments as insurers in professional and hospital liability insurance markets / Frank A. Sloan and Charles E. Eesley -- Medicare-led malpractice reform / William M. Sage and Eleanor D. Kinney. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-388) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005037931 |
| ISBN | 0521849322 : |
