Risk management: how doctors, hospitals and MDOs can limit the costs of malpractice litigation.

摘要: The concerns of doctors regarding their risk malpractice litigation and the costs indemnity premiums are resulting in calls for legal reforms to limit liability. We do not believe these returns will be successful either practically or politically. Medical defence organisations often attempt vindicate doctor rather than settle dispute--a strategy that might morally satisfying but which is also more expensive approach taken by commercial insurers. Risk management--the activities required minimise financial loss hospitals who work them--is disorganised absent most hospitals. Hospital managers lack incentives management because come out budgets. five mainstays effective credentialling medical staff, incident monitoring tracking, complaints infection control, documentation record. implementation immediate responsibility hospital management, doctors.