National Costs Of The Medical Liability System
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- 1 September 2010
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 29 (9) , 1569-1577
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0807
Abstract
Concerns about reducing the rate of growth of health expenditures have reignited interest in medical liability reforms and their potential to save money by reducing the practice of defensive medici...Keywords
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