In the eyes of the law: Malpractice litigation in oculoplastic surgery

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 119-123

  Svider, Peter F ^a,b   Blake, Danielle M ^a,b   Husain, Qasim ^a   Mauro, Andrew C ^c   Turbin, Roger E ^a   Eloy, Jean Anderson ^a,b   Langer, Paul D ^a  

^a Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science ^*  (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION; EXPOSURE KERATITIS; EYE SURGERY; EYEBROW; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KERATITIS; LAGOPHTHALMOS; LAW SUIT; LEGAL DATABASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIST; ORBIT RECONSTRUCTION; OTOLARYNGOLOGIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGEON; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SURGERY, PLASTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896405978     PISSN: 07409303     EISSN: 15372677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IOP.0000000000000025     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Anderson GF, Hussey PS, Frogner BK, et al. Health spending in the United States and the rest of the industrialized world. Health Aff (Millwood) 2005;24:903-14.
2. Brooks RG, Menachemi N, Hughes C, et al. Impact of the medical professional liability insurance crisis on access to care in Florida. Arch Intern Med 2004;164:2217-22.
3. Nahed BV, Babu MA, Smith TR, et al. Malpractice liability and defensive medicine: a national survey of neurosurgeons. PLoS One 2012;7:e39237.
4. Mello MM, Kachalia A, Goodell S. Medical malpractice-april 2011 update. Synth Proj Res Synth Rep 2011;(21Suppl 1).
5. Hertz BT, Arthurs J. Malpractice rates plateauing. The only thing to fear may be fear itself. Med Econ 2011;88:24-5, 8-9, 32.
6. Hermer LD, Brody H. Defensive medicine, cost containment, and reform. J Gen Intern Med 2010;25:470-3.
7. Medical malpractice litigation raises health-care cost, reduces access, and lowers quality of care. J Med Pract Manage 2004;20:44-51.
8. Aguirre-Gas HG, Zavala-Villavicencio JA, Hernández-Torres F, et al. Quality of medical care and patient surgical safety: medical error, malpractice and professional liability. Cir Cir 2010;78:456-62.
9. Jena AB, Chandra A, Lakdawalla D, et al. Outcomes of medical malpractice litigation against US physicians. Arch Intern Med 2012;172:892-4.
10. Jena AB, Seabury S, Lakdawalla D, et al. Malpractice risk according to physician specialty. N Engl J Med 2011;365:629-36.
11. Svider PF, Kovalerchik O, Mauro AC, et al. Legal liability in iatrogenic orbital injury. Laryngoscope 2013;123:2099-103.
12. Svider PF, Keeley BR, Zumba O, et al. From the operating room to the courtroom: a comprehensive characterization of litigation related to facial plastic surgery procedures. Laryngoscope 2013;123:1849-53.
13. Nash JJ, Nash AG, Leach ME, et al. Medical malpractice and corticosteroid use. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2011;144:10-5.
14. Reilly BK, Horn GM, Sewell RK. Hearing loss resulting in malpractice litigation: what physicians need to know. Laryngoscope 2013;123:112-7.
15. Lydiatt DD. Medical malpractice and facial nerve paralysis. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2003;129:50-3.
16. Svider PF, Pashkova AA, Husain Q, et al. Determination of legal responsibility in iatrogenic tracheal and laryngeal stenosis. Laryngoscope 2013;123:1754-8.
17. Svider PF, Sunaryo PL, Keeley BR, et al. Characterizing liability for cranial nerve injuries: a detailed analysis of 209 malpractice trials. Laryngoscope 2013;123:1152-62.
18. Lydiatt DD, Sewell RK. Medical malpractice and sinonasal disease. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2008;139:677-81.
19. Horch RE, Arkudas A. Upper and lower eyelid blepharoplasty: development of aesthetic periocular plastic surgery. Chirurg 2011;82:775-81.
20. Abadin SS, Kaplan EL, Angelos P. Malpractice litigation after thyroid surgery: the role of recurrent laryngeal nerve injuries, 1989-2009. Surgery 2010;148:718-22; discussion 22-3.