Lawyers, litigation, and liability: Can they make patients safer?

Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 991-993

  Holloway, Robert G ^a   Panzer, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDITORIAL; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LAW SUIT; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL LIABILITY; NEGLIGENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SAFETY;

EID: 0035942353     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.56.8.991     Document Type: Editorial

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