The jaw‐dropping costs of oral cavity cancer malpractice
| Autor: | Daniel Zhu, Amanda Wong, Andrew L. Ko, Dennis Kraus, Tristan Tham, Jane Y. Tong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Databases Factual Referral business.industry General surgery Malpractice Cancer medicine.disease Oral cavity United States 03 medical and health sciences Patient population 0302 clinical medicine Otorhinolaryngology Physicians 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Health care Humans Medicine Mouth Neoplasms 030223 otorhinolaryngology business Allegation |
| Zdroj: | Head & Neck. 43:2869-2875 |
| ISSN: | 1097-0347 1043-3074 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND Medical litigation is different than it was 20 years ago due to changes in health care. This study provides an updated analysis of oral cavity malpractice litigation from the past two decades (2000-2010 and 2011-2019). METHODS Verdict reviews from the Westlaw database were analyzed from January 2000 to August 2019. Data were collected and analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. RESULTS Sixty-five lawsuits were evaluated across 24 states. Failure to diagnose was the most common allegation in both decades. Adjusting for inflation, the average amount awarded from 2000 to 2010 was $1 721 068 and $3 925 504 from 2011 to 2019. CONCLUSIONS There has been a significant rise in allegations of failure to biopsy and failure to refer (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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