Compensation for medical injury in New Zealand: Does "no-fault" increase the level of claims making and reduce social and clinical selectivity?

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Compensation for medical injury in New Zealand: Does "no-fault" increase the level of claims making and reduce social and clinical selectivity?

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The issues of patient safety and quality of care have gained policy attention with a growing appreciation of the scale and impact of medical injury in health systems. While the focus is clearly on the prevention of iatrogenic injury, the question of patient compensation is now also considered important, if only because in fault-based tort systems the fear of litigation may itself be a barrier to the disclosure and open discussion of medical error. No-fault systems, by contrast, do not require...

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2002-10-01

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Davis, Peter / Lay Yee, Roy / Fitzjohn, J / Hider, P / Briant, R / Schug, S

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/26863

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Science & Technology / Social Sciences / Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Health Care Sciences & Services / Health Policy & Services / Medicine, Legal / Social Issues / Social Sciences, Biomedical / Legal Medicine / Biomedical Social Sciences / EVENTS REGIONAL FEASIBILITY / ADVERSE EVENTS / MALPRACTICE CLAIMS / NEGLIGENT CARE / UTAH / SUE / COLORADO / QUALITY / ERROR

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