Risk management: how doctors, hospitals and MDOs can limit the costs of malpractice litigation
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- for debate
- Published by Wiley in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 172 (2) , 77-80
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2000.tb139206.x
Abstract
The concerns of doctors regarding their risk of malpractice litigation and the costs of indemnity premiums are resulting in calls for legal reforms to limit their liability. We do not believe these r...Keywords
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