Medical malpractice and the U.S. health care system
By: edited by William M. Sage, Rogan Kersh
Contributors: Sage, William M; Kersh, Rogan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Physicians -- Malpractice -- United States; Insurance, Physicians' liability -- United States; Medical care -- United States
Other titles: Medical malpractice and the US health care system; Medical malpractice and the United States health care system
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-388) and index
Table of contents: title: The medical malpractice system : structure and performance / Michelle M. Mello and David M. Studdert; title: Malpractice reform as a health policy problem / William M. Sage; title: Medical malpractice and the new politics of health care / Rogan Kersh; title: Who pays when malpractice premiums rise? / Mark V. Pauly; title: The effects of the U.S. malpractice system on the cost and quality of care / David J. Becker and Daniel P. Kessler; title: Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine : what does the future hold? / Troyen A. Brennan, Michelle M. Mello, and David M. Studdert; title: Medical liability and the culture of technology / Peter D. Jacobson; title: Promoting fairness in the medical malpractice system / Maxwell J. Mehlman; title: Caps and the construction of damages in medical malpractice cases / Catherine M. Sharkey; title: Expertise and the legal process / Catherine T. Struve; title: Disclosure and fair resolution of adverse events / Carol B. Liebman and Chris Stern Hyman; title: Enterprise liability in the twenty-first century / Randall R. Bovbjerg and Robert Berenson; title: Private contractual alternatives to malpractice liability / Jennifer Arlen; title: Medical malpractice insurance reform : "enterprise insurance" and some alternatives / Tom Baker; title: Governments as insurers in professional and hospital liability insurance markets / Frank A. Sloan and Charles E. Eesley; title: Medicare-led malpractice reform / William M. Sage and Eleanor D. Kinney