Malpractice Claims: Finding the Silver Lining
- 1 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal
- Vol. 98 (11) , 1065
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.smj.0000194520.60422.20
Abstract
In this issue of SMJ, Holohan and colleagues present findings from their review of 1,949 paid malpractice claims in the Veterans Health Administration from 1998 to 2003. The article nicely highlights that diagnostic errors are an important quality problem in the US healthcare system. Diagnostic errors were common, they were very harmful to patients, and frequently occurred in the ambulatory...Keywords
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