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Patient Harm From Orthodontic Care (Part I): Types and Frequency of Patient‐Reported Harms From a National Database

open access: yesOrthodontics &Craniofacial Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patient safety is a fundamental prerequisite for high‐quality healthcare and central to clinical practice, including orthodontics. Despite the widespread emphasis on safety in healthcare delivery, knowledge specific to patient safety in orthodontics remains limited.
Nikolaos Ferlias   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liability, insurance and defensive medicine: new evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
For the first time, we test for effects of liability on hospital care using measures of current perceptions of litigation risk at hospital level; in particular, the risk-sharing arrangements agreed between hospitals and their insurers.
Paul Fenn, Neil Rickman, Alastair Gray
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Malpractice claims related to diagnostic errors in the hospital

open access: yes, 2018
Background Little is known about the incidence or significance of diagnostic error in the inpatient setting. We used a malpractice claims database to examine incidence, predictors and consequences of diagnosis-related paid malpractice claims in ...
Saint, S   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Patient Harm From Orthodontic Care (Part II): Incident Analysis of Contributory Factors and Perceived Avoidability of Harm

open access: yesOrthodontics &Craniofacial Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patient safety, defined as the absence of avoidable harm, in orthodontics is still in its early stages of development. Knowledge on the subject is limited. Aim (1) To conduct an incident analysis, (2) to measure avoidability, (3) to investigate the relationship between contributory factors and perceived avoidability of harm from ...
Nikolaos Ferlias   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Educational malpractice: legal cases and educators' views

open access: yes, 2008
The notion of being negligently and legally liable for poor teaching that results in the failure of students being able to achieve expected educational outcomes is an unimaginable prospect.
Teh, Mui-Kim
core   +1 more source

Amputation surgery is associated with a higher risk of malpractice in cases of traumatic amputation: retrospective analyses of extremity amputation malpractice litigation

open access: yesActa Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica
Objective: This study aims to undertake a comprehensive review of malpractice litigation cases involving limb amputation surgery, with a subsequent evaluation of the cases accepted as malpractice.
Filiz Ekim Çevik   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums [PDF]

open access: yes
Since 2000, premiums for employer-provided health insurance have increased by 59 percent with little corresponding increase in the generosity of coverage.
Amitabh Chandra, Katherine Baicker
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Fighting Corruption Through Accountability? A Survey Experiment 感覺課責能否抑制貪腐?來自調查實驗的證據

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic Weberian bureaucracy is facing great challenges upholding public values as we see turbulent party politics disrupt merit‐based systems, causing bureaucrats' goal displacement and conflicting compliance under multiple accountability mechanisms.
Ming‐feng Kuo, Hsini Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Mandatory Legal Malpractice Insurance: Exposing Lawyers\u27 Blind Spots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The legal landscape for lawyers’ professional liability in the United States is changing. In 2018, Idaho implemented a new rule requiring that lawyers carry legal malpractice insurance.
Fortney, Susan Saab
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Bullshitters, Liars and Bad Teachers: The Scope of Epistemic Malevolence

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is two‐fold. We argue against the received conception of epistemic malevolence and give a broader characterisation that, we argue, captures its real scope. We tackle the current notion of epistemic malevolence (EM) on three fronts. We claim that this notion fails to capture cases of EM that are (i) not knowledge directed (
Sam Dickson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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