Background Although much of the public health effort to combat coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) has focused on disease control strategies in public settings, transmission of …

Background. The ongoing debate on the incidence and types of iatrogenic injuries in
American hospitals has been informed primarily by the Harvard Medical Practice Study …

ContextHow often physicians alter their clinical behavior because of the threat of malpractice
liability, termed defensive medicine, and the consequences of those changes, are central …

Background Risk factors for medical errors remain poorly understood. We performed a case–
control study of retained foreign bodies in surgical patients in order to identify risk factors for …

Background. Little is known of the factors that underlie surgical errors. Incident reporting has
been proposed as a method of obtaining information about medical errors to help identify …

Background In the current debate over tort reform, critics of the medical malpractice system
charge that frivolous litigation—claims that lack evidence of injury, substandard care, or both …

BACKGROUND: Communication breakdowns are a common threat to surgical safety, but
there are little data to guide initiatives to improve communication. STUDY DESIGN: In …

Patient injuries are thought to have a substantial financial impact on the health care system,
but recent studies have been limited to estimating the costs of adverse drug events in …

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 …

Background: Although missed and delayed diagnoses have become an important patient
safety concern, they remain largely unstudied, especially in the outpatient setting. Objective …