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Employers, insurers, and other purchasers of health care services collect data to profile the practice habits of pediatricians and other physicians. This policy statement delineates a series of recommendations that should be adopted by health care purchasers to guide the development and implementation of physician profiling systems.
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Benchmarking/normas , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/normas , Pediatría/normas , Pautas de la Práctica en Medicina , Evaluación del Rendimiento de Empleados , Humanos , Estados Unidos , Revisión de Utilización de RecursosRESUMEN
Malpractice claims for failure to diagnose breast cancer are on the increase. Obstetrician-gynecologists are frequently targeted as defendants in these claims. A significant increase in the frequency and severity of these claims can be predicted by virtue of the widespread incidence and severity of the disease, coupled with changes in tort law. Physicians can learn risk management and loss prevention techniques by studying claims data and actual medical malpractice cases.
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Actitud del Personal de Salud , Neoplasias de la Mama/diagnóstico , Legislación Médica , Mala Praxis/legislación & jurisprudencia , Oncología Médica , Adulto , American Cancer Society , Errores Diagnósticos , Femenino , Humanos , Mala Praxis/estadística & datos numéricos , Mamografía , Anamnesis , Persona de Mediana Edad , Examen Físico , Estados UnidosAsunto(s)
Ginecología/legislación & jurisprudencia , Responsabilidad Legal , Mala Praxis/legislación & jurisprudencia , Obstetricia/legislación & jurisprudencia , Adulto , Femenino , Ginecología/estadística & datos numéricos , Humanos , Seguro de Responsabilidad Civil/economía , Masculino , Mala Praxis/estadística & datos numéricos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Obstetricia/estadística & datos numéricos , Pautas de la Práctica en Medicina , Sociedades Médicas , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Estados UnidosAsunto(s)
Ética Médica , Guías como Asunto/normas , Ginecología/normas , Consentimiento Informado/legislación & jurisprudencia , Obstetricia/normas , Revelación , Femenino , Ginecología/legislación & jurisprudencia , Humanos , Menores , Obstetricia/legislación & jurisprudencia , Medición de Riesgo , Sociedades Médicas , Revelación de la Verdad , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
Are the judges surprising supporters of malpractice reform? What is the overall message of the ACOG survey of judges, and how can organized medicine use that message? On balance, the ACOG survey of judges shows that they agree with physicians who argue that the present system needs to be changed. The overall message is that the present tort system does not work very well in the area of expert witness testimony, the system of jury decision-making, or the awarding of damages. Since it does not work very well, the medical community must continue to advocate changes to the system, ones that are fair to society as a whole. The judges' opinions on what reforms would better serve society can be persuasive data to present to state and federal legislators. So it's not just lawyers vs. doctors anymore. After all, the judges are lawyers, too. And these lawyers seem to be on the doctors' side.