The Relationship Between Physicians' Malpractice Claims History and Later Claims: Does the Past Predict the Future?

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 272, Issue 18, 1994, Pages 1421-1426

  Bovbjerg, Randall R ^a   Petronis, Kenneth R ^a  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; DATA BASE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HISTORY; INSURANCE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027987177     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1994.03520180045033     Document Type: Article

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