The effect of malpractice reformon emergency department care

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1518-1525

  Waxman, Daniel A ^a,b   Greenberg, Michael D ^a   Ridgely, M Susan ^a   Kellermann, Arthur L ^c   Heaton, Paul ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; NEGLIGENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HOSPITALIZATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALPRACTICE; MEDICARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908073868     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa1313308     Document Type: Article

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