Research Catalog

Title

A Measure of malpractice : medical injury, malpractice litigation, and patient compensation / Paul C. Weiler [and others].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Weiler, Paul C.

Description

xiv, 178 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Physicians > Malpractice > United States
• Physicians' malpractice insurance > United States
• Malpractice > Economic aspects > Research > United States
• Liability insurance
• Malpractice
• Insurance, Liability
• Liability, Legal
• Malpractice
• Wounds and Injuries > epidemiology
• malpractice
• Liability insurance
• Physicians > Malpractice
• Physicians' malpractice insurance
• Patiëntenrecht
• Liability (Law) > United States
• Liability insurance > United States
• Malpractice > New York
• Wounds and injuries > Epidemiology > New York
• Médecins > États-Unis > Responsabilité professionnelle
• Erreurs médicales > États-Unis
• Responsabilité professionnelle > États-Unis
• Responsabilité civile > États-Unis
• Dommages-intérêts > États-Unis
• Indemnisation > États-Unis
• Ärzte
• Haftung
• Haftpflichtversicherung
• USA
• New York > epidemiology
• United States

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The malpractice setting -- The policy debate about medical malpractice -- The epidemiology of medical injury -- Patient injury and malpractice litigation -- Patient losses and compensation -- Malpractice litigation and injury prevention -- Ruminations for the future.

ISBN

• 0674558804
• 9780674558809

LCCN

92001705

OCLC

• ocm26213672
• 26213672
• SCSB-9015157

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library