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...Andrew L. Hyams; David W. Shapiro; Troyen A. Brennan The role of practice guidelines in malpractice litigation has been discussed in some theoretical detail. Little information is available, however, on how courts use guidelines or on the effort of state legislatures to explicitly link guideline...

...Michelle M. Mello; Carly N. Kelly; Troyen A. Brennan After decades of inattention to the problem of medical injuries, patient safety is now occupying a prominent place on the health policy agenda and garnering renewed regulatory interest. Health care providers' behavior, with respect to patient...

...Mae Thamer; Niall Brennan; Rafael Semansky Six countries—Canada, France, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States—were studied to compare public policies affecting the development and marketing of pharmaceuticals for rare diseases (i.e., orphan drugs). Information was obtained from...

...Michelle M. Mello; Troyen A. Brennan © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 American Law Institute. 1998 . Restatement(Third) of Torts: Products Liability . Philadelphia: American Law Institute. Breeden, J. L., and W. A. Bryan. 2000 . Improving Jury Deliberations: Perspectives from...

...Troyen A. Brennan 848 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law marketists, was primarily developed to guarantee that the CBO would score the budget savings so desperately and fundamentally needed to pay for universal coverage. Second, Glied could have further explored an important fact...

...Alice A. Noble; Troyen A. Brennan The managed care industry is at a crossroads. Belief in the ability of market forces alone to create an environment fostering quality health care at lower cost is eroding. Regulators across the country are confronted with a growing consumer backlash against managed...

...Troyen A. Brennan Practice guidelines are standardized specifications for managing particular clinical problems and are intended to improve the outcomes of medical care by increasing adherence to standards of care. They are also meant to make medicine more cost-effective by eliminating unnecessary...

...Ann G. Lawthers; A. Russell Localio; Nan M. Laird; Stuart Lipsitz; Liesi Hebert; Troyen A. Brennan We explore the deterrent effect of the tort system by assessing physician perceptions of the risk of being sued and the impact of those perceptions on their own practice. The data are from a mailed...

...Troyen A. Brennan; Robert F. Carter How to evaluate and apply probabilistic scientific evidence that cancer (or other diseases) have been caused by chemical substances (or other environmental agents) constitutes a critical problem which must be addressed by legal institutions. This article analyzes...

...David M. Studdert; Lori A. Fritz; Troyen A. Brennan Florida's Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan (NICA) is the most significant experiment with compensation for medical injury yet undertaken in the United States. As NICA enters its second decade of operation, maintaining...

...Dan W. Brock Troyen A. Brennan. Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. 287 pp. $38.00 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 268 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law ture. One hopes...

.... Brennan, T. A., and D. M. Berwick. 1996 . New Rules, Regulations, Markets, and the Quality of American Health Care . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Brennan, T. A., L. L. Leape, N. M. Laird, L. Hebert, A. R. Localio,A. G. Lawthers, J. P. Newhouse, P. C. Weiler, and H. H. Hiatt. 1991 . Incidence of Adverse...

...-Pointing. New Zealand Medical Journal 118(1216). www.nzma.org.nz/journal/118-1216/1516/ . Brahams, D. 1998 . No Fault Compensation Finnish Style. Lancet 332 : 733 -736. Brennan, T. A., L. L. Leape, N. M. Laird, A. R. Localio, A. G. Lawthers, J. P. Newhouse, P. C. Weiler, and H. H. Hiatt. 1991...

... Injury. Law and Contemporary Problems 60 ( 2 ): 71 -115. Boyd, G. M. 1986 . Reagan Said to Seek Legislation Altering Liability Insurance Rules. New York Times , March 31 . Brennan, T. A., L. L. Leape, N. M. Laird, L. Hebert, A. R. Localio, A. G. Lawthers, J. P. Newhouse, P. C. Weiler...

.... The opinion was authored by Justice John Marshall Harlan, a what-was-then-thought-of-as-conservative Republi- can, and was joined by justices across the political spectrum: his fellow Republican Stewart, liberal Democrats Douglas, Brennan, and Marshall, and conservative Democrat White .I2 Justice...

... cannot tolerate economic incen- tives based on notions of efficiency that compromise care for patients. (P. 216) It is hard to see how Brennan can mean what this apparently says, which in turn makes unclear just what his position on limiting care is. Limits on care and rationing, which...

... ( 21 ): 1601 -1604. Brennan , Troyen A. , Lucian L. Leape, Nan M. Laird, Liesi Hebert, Localio A. Russell, Ann G. Lawthers, Joseph P. Newhouse, Paul C. Weiler, and Howard H. Hiatt. 1991 . Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients: Results of the Harvard Medical...

... Problems 54(1–2):5–42. Brennan , T. A. 1991 . Practice Guidelines and Malpractice Litigation: Collision or Cohesion? Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 16 : 67 -85. Brennan , T. A. , L. L. Leape, N. Laird, L. Liesi, A. Localio, A. Lawthers, J. Newhouse, P. Weiler, and H. Hiatt...

... the Fruits of Collective Economic Activity: Referrals among Health Care Providers, Columbia Law Review 89 : 1861 -938. Brennan , Troyen A. Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics In thm liberal Statm. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991 . 287 pp . $38.00 cloth...

... Immunization. Lancet 1 ( 83 ): 1031 -1034. Boschert , S. 1996 . Early Data Upbeat on Lyme Shot. Pediatric News 30 ( 1 ): 12 . Brennan , T. A. 1988 . Causal Chains and Statistical Links: The Role of Scientific Uncertainty in Hazardous-Substance Litigation. Cornell Law Review 73 ( 3...