Concerns about the efficiency of tort:• how little money goes to the patient because of high
legal and administrative costs (reports estimate up to 50% of the costs of the lawsuit)• only a …

Abstract In 1999 the Institute of Medicine reported that most medical injuries relate to
unavoidable human error in a context of system failure. Patient safety improves when …

The costs of litigation are large and increasing, to a level that places a drain on precious
health-care resources and affects the way medicine is practised. This article examines …

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Proposals that medical malpractice claims be removed from the tort system and processed
in an alternative system, known as administrative compensation or 'health courts,'attract …

Not all medical injuries are the result of negligence. In fact, most medical injuries are the
result either of the inherent risk in the practice of medicine, or due to system errors, which …

The medical malpractice tort system in the United States is based on three main goals:
deterrence of unsafe practices, compensation for injured persons, and corrective justice. 1 …

The issues of patient safety and quality of care have gained policy attention with a growing
appreciation of the scale and impact of medical injury in health systems. While the focus is …

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Developed in the early 1980s in North America as a result of a series of significant cultural,
social, structural, and economic factors relating to post-modern Western society, the …