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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 April 2007
... of Population and Health Care Expenditure: A Red Herring? Health Economics 8 : 485 -496. Protecting Medicare:
The Best Defense Is a Good Offense
Joseph White...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (5): 843–865.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of plaintiffs, attorneys, medical providers, and malpractice insurers in the intended way is crucial to policy makers, if they are to achieve their goal. This study specifically examines the effect of reforms on the claims defense efforts of insurers, given that defense expenses account for approximately 30...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1996) 21 (2): 185–220.
Published: 01 April 1996
... how often they would follow the practices
and why, with eight possible reasons listed, including “to add to a record
which might be helpful in defense of a malpractice suit.”
But the survey cover letter disclosed its malpractice liability-oriented
purpose. Thus respondents were not blinded...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1996) 21 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 April 1996
...Peter A. Glassman; John E. Rolph; Laura P. Petersen; Melissa A. Bradley; Richard L. Kravitz Whether personal malpractice experience is part of a tort signal prompting physicians to practice defensively is unclear. To explore this issue further, we assessed how physicians’ malpractice experiences...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1996) 21 (2): 243–266.
Published: 01 April 1996
... and Experts or the Physician Insurers
Association of America raise directly the use of HOCAs instead of
LOCAs for low-risk patients. Most of the cases included in these data-
bases resulted in defense verdicts or small settlements.4 We found five
informed consent cases through Medical Malpractice Verdicts...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1996) 21 (2): 267–288.
Published: 01 April 1996
... LOCAs to
high-risk patients (Jacobson and Rosenquist 1996). More systematically,
Maine is trying to develop and implement guidelines for four medical
specialties that can be used as a malpractice defense (U.S. General
Accounting Office 1993). Very early indications are that some guidelines
have...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (6): 1157–1177.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Katherine Baicker; Bill J. Wright; Nicole A. Olson Abstract There is ongoing policy debate about the potential for malpractice liability reform to reduce the use of defensive medicine and slow the growth of health care spending. The effectiveness of such policy levers hinges on the degree to which...
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 4 (1): 30–47.
Published: 01 February 1979
... of who will control the defense. If the NHP standard is defined as that
of a physician, expert testimony on both the standard and whether it was
followed probably will come solely from physicians, leaving to them
major control over the development of the practice of NHPs.
11. Liability...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (5): 785–818.
Published: 01 October 2007
.... To understand whether and how litigation contributed to the diffusion of the procedure, we conducted a series of case studies that examine the litigation tactics and strategies used by defense and plaintiffs' counsel. Despite the fact that HDC/ABMT lacked proven scientific effectiveness, insurance defense...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2010) 35 (5): 797–828.
Published: 01 October 2010
... exchange. Defense lawyers were less likely than plaintiff attorneys to mediate. Both plaintiff and defense attorneys were satisfied with the process, as were plaintiffs, hospital representatives, and insurers. Changes in hospitals' practices or policies to improve patient safety were identified. This study...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (3): 537–542.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Sherry Glied Abstract Despite concerns that the health policy academy is divorced from policy making, the articles in this special issue generally suggest that academic policy research played important roles in the development, implementation, and subsequent defense of the Affordable Care Act. One...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (5): 771–791.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Tal Gross; Miriam J. Laugesen Abstract Higher prices are increasingly recognized as a significant cause of the outlier status of the United States in health care expenditures. At the same time, various explanations are often invoked to justify higher prices as rational or even defensible. We...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1999) 24 (2): 275–304.
Published: 01 April 1999
... reform by enacting demonstration projects permitting physicians to introduce evidence that they followed practice guidelines as an affirmative defense. In this article, I argue that even though the introduction of practice guidelines may promote the policy objective of cost-effectiveness in the delivery...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1998) 23 (6): 949–973.
Published: 01 December 1998
.... The efficiencies defense is shown to be difficult to make even when economies of scale make the likelihood of efficiencies high. The financial difficulties of many rural hospitals, especially in areas where too many exist, mean that mergers such as this one in Ukiah often are an efficient way to keep...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (6): 1109–1152.
Published: 01 December 2004
...C. Lee Harrington This article reports on a qualitative study of defense attorneys'perceptions of the mental competence or rationality of death row inmates'decisions to waive habeas appeals and proceed directly to execution. Interviews were conducted with twenty attorneys who have either directly...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (4): 589–630.
Published: 01 August 2019
... the seeds of its defense. Methods: This study used an individual-level panel design to estimate the causal effect of implementation on opinion and electoral outcomes for ACA beneficiaries during the first year of open enrollment. Findings: Individuals who enrolled in plans on the health insurance...
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Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1999) 24 (3): 489–529.
Published: 01 June 1999
...Marie Gottschalk During the battle over comprehensive health care reform in the early 1990s, organized labor was not only unable to put together a winning coalition but also found itself divided and on the defensive as it struggled to prevent any further erosion of the private-sector safety net...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1996) 21 (2): 289–313.
Published: 01 April 1996
.... Smith , G. H. 1993 . A Case Study in Progress: Practice Guidelines and the Affirmative Defense in Maine. Journal of Quality Improvement 19 ( 8 ): 355 -362. Strickland , D. 1993 . Quality of Care under Reform: Practice Guidelines and Report Cards. In A New Deal for American Health Care...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (4): 663–689.
Published: 01 August 1989
... that begins a lawsuit traditionally
gives a dollar value of the damages claimed. High dollar ad damnums may cause
pretrial publicity that is harmful to the defense at trial and also causes loss of
reputation. They may even distract the jury from basing its conclusions solely on
the evidence...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1995) 20 (1): 99–135.
Published: 01 February 1995
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lish the standard of care. Specifically, proposals call for procedural and
evidentiary rules for common law court cases that make compliance with
a guideline an affirmative defense to the malpractice suit, that is, a legal
defense that the plaintiff must refute to recover. So far, however...
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