Learning from litigation. The role of claims analysis in patient safety.

Journal article

Claims for malpractice and medical negligence are a potentially important source of information on the causes of harm to patients and have provided valuable lessons in the past. However today, with many additional sources of information and methods of analysis, the role of claims analysis needs to be reappraised. We consider the role of claims analysis in relation to other methods of studying adverse outcomes, review previous studies of claims and summarize the findings of four recent British...

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Authors: Vincent, C; Davy, C; Esmail, A; Neale, G; Elstein, M

• Journal: Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 665-674
• Publication date: 2006-12-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00634.x
• EISSN: 1365-2753
• ISSN: 1356-1294
• Language: English
• Keywords: Medical Errors; Great Britain; Malpractice; Peer Review, Health Care; Process Assessment (Health Care); Quality of Health Care; Insurance Claim Review; Health Services Research; Humans; Medical Records