Malpractice Liability and Quality of Care

In this issue of JAMA, Mello and colleagues report findings from a review of 37 studies and conclude that increased liability exposure (such as numbers of malpractice claims, dollar amounts of liability insurance premiums, or changes to state malpractice laws) was not associated with improvement in the quality of patient care. Their review draws effectively from databases of peer-reviewed medical literature, economics scholarship, and legal publications, and presents a thorough, necessary, and rigorous analysis of recent research.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research