| National costs of the medical liability system. | |
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PMID: 20820010 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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Concerns about reducing the rate of growth of health expenditures have reignited interest in medical liability reforms and their potential to save money by reducing the practice of defensive medicine. It is not easy to estimate the costs of the medical liability system, however. This article identifies the various components of liability system costs, generates national estimates for each component, and discusses the level of evidence available to support the estimates. Overall annual medical liability system costs, including defensive medicine, are estimated to be $55.6 billion in 2008 dollars, or 2.4 percent of total health care spending. |
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Authors:
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Michelle M Mello; Amitabh Chandra; Atul A Gawande; David M Studdert |
Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Health affairs (Project Hope) Volume: 29 ISSN: 1544-5208 ISO Abbreviation: Health Aff (Millwood) Publication Date: 2010 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-09-07 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8303128 Medline TA: Health Aff (Millwood) Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1569-77 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. mmello@hsph.harvard.edu |
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P01-AG19783/AG/NIA NIH HHS |
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Comment In:
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Health Aff (Millwood). 2010 Dec;29(12):2355
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21134946
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Health Aff (Millwood). 2010 Nov;29(11):2127; author reply 2128 [PMID: 21041762 ] |
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