Trauma surgery malpractice risk: Perception versus reality

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 241, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 969-977

  Stewart, Ronald M ^a,b   Johnston, Joe ^a   Geoghegan, Kathy ^a   Anthony, Tiffany ^a   Myers, John G ^a   Dent, Daniel L ^a   Corneille, Michael G ^a   Danielson, Daren S ^a   Root, H David ^a   Pruitt Jr , Basil A ^a   Cohn, Stephen M ^a   David Richardson, J ^c   Flint Jr , Lewis M ^c   Croce, Martin A ^c   O'Leary, J Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; BILE LEAKAGE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CAREER; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DATA BASE; DUODENUM INJURY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FACE FRACTURE; GALLSTONE; GENERAL SURGERY; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HUMAN; ILEITIS; INGUINAL HERNIA; INSURANCE; LAW SUIT; LEGAL LIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALPRACTICE; MORBID OBESITY; OVARY CYST; PANCREAS CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SURGEON; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY; TEXAS; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 21144451646     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000164179.48276.45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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