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Medical Malpractice: Impact of the Crisis and Effect of State Tort Reforms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Reviews research on the malpractice crisis and examines data on how volatile malpractice environments affect healthcare delivery and how state tort reforms affect premiums, frequency of claims, payouts, and physician supply.
Michelle M. Mello
core  

Estimating Causal Effects With Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are causal in nature: they study how changes in one or more variables (such as policies, prices or weather) affect one or more other variables (e.g., income, crop yields or pollution).
Arne Henningsen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empirical Perspectives on Mediation and Malpractice [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
The use of mediation in the medical malpractice context is examined.
Metzloff, Thomas B.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Securing Democracy: Online Political Advertising Regulations and Practices in the EU and its Member States

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Malpractice Pressure and Liability Reforms on Physicians’ Perceptions of Medical Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Considerable evidence suggests that the medical malpractice liability system neither provides compensation to patients who suffer negligent medical injury nor seeks to penalize physicians whose negligence causes patient injury.
Kessler, Daniel P., McClellan, Mark B.
core   +1 more source

Lawyer CEOs and Strategic Disclosure of Litigation Loss Contingencies

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
Using hand‐collected data, we find that lawyer CEOs, defined as CEOs with a legal education background, tend to make first disclosures about pending litigation cases on a timelier basis for litigation cases that end up with material losses than do non‐lawyer CEOs.
Feng Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Technology Provides Compelling Reasons to Apply a Daubert Analysis to the Legal Standard of Care in Medical Malpractice Cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Traditionally, courts have applied a customary practice standard in determining the legal standard of care in medical malpractice cases. Recently, a few courts have abandoned this dated standard and instead applied a Daubert analysis to the standard of
Hines, Nichole
core   +1 more source

Management of Agitation in Emergency Medical Services for Older Adults: A Qualitative Exploration

open access: yesAcademic Emergency Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Emergency medical services (EMS) providers are often first responders to agitated older adults, providing critical clinical care and transport. However, significant knowledge gaps persist in our understanding of agitation management for older adults in the prehospital setting.
Fatima I. Shah   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of internet addiction on surgical nurses’ malpractice tendencies: Turkish sample

open access: yesBMC Psychology
Background This study aimed to determine the effect of surgical nurses’ internet addiction on their malpractice tendencies. Methods The descriptive cross-sectional study included 1051 nurses working in the surgical awards of 10 hospitals in Istanbul ...
Elif Gezginci Akpinar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Embryos as Patients? Medical Provider Duties in the Age of CRISPR/Cas9 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The CRISPR/Cas9 genome engineering platform is the first method of gene editing that could potentially be used to treat genetic disorders in human embryos. No past therapies, genetic or otherwise, have been intended or used to treat disorders in existent
Powell, G. Edward, III
core   +1 more source

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