Economic Issues in Medical Malpractice: Dispute Resolution and the Shift to No-Fault

医疗事故代表了病人关注的交叉点 用法律来纠正医疗质量问题 感觉到的不满 当患者对治疗不满意时， 他们接受的医疗服务的质量，他们可以注册 向医院投诉或提起诉讼 如果他们注册一个 投诉，医院的投诉办公室可以通过提供 一个供个人申诉的论坛， 以宽恕病人的方式赔偿 #21453;，或提供现金补偿。 如果一个提议 当患者做出赔偿时，患者可以选择接受 接受或拒绝要约，在这种情况下，他可以提交体检报告 医疗事故诉讼 如果没有提供赔偿， 患者可以选择提起诉讼或不再采取行动 行动上 到目前为止，已经完成的研究很少， 试图研究投诉如何演变成解决方案，并成为 医疗事故诉讼 白色博士将填补这一空白，在医疗事故的研究， 收集了一套关于在一个 特定医院并将其与现有数据集合并 关于医疗事故的诉讼 利用合并的数据集，将构建模型， 分析是什么决定了投诉是否演变成诉讼， 评估哪一方从尽早解决争端中获益最大， 估计在确定医院的 争议管理投诉阶段的预期责任 过程 该项目的这一阶段将提供相当多的 深入了解诉讼前争议解决过程， 一般情况以及争端处理的早期阶段如何影响 投诉演变成和解或诉讼。 利用模拟方法，项目的第二阶段 调查了从目前的 医疗事故责任制度的一个假设没有- 断层系统 该项目的这一阶段将调查一系列 重要的政策问题，包括对影响的估计 在支付的赔偿总额方面转向无过失原则， 管理薪酬制度的成本。

Medical malpractice represents the intersection of patient concerns about the quality of medical care with the use of law to redress a perceived grievance. When patients are dissatisfied with the quality of the medical care they receive, they can either register a complaint at a hospital or file a lawsuit. If they register a complaint, the hospital's complaints office may respond by offering a forum for an individual to air a grievance, providing compensation in the form of forgiveness of a patient's outstanding bill, or by offering cash compensation. If an offer of compensation is made, the patient has a choice between accepting the offer or rejecting it, in which case (s)he may file a medical malpractice lawsuit. If no offer of compensation is made, the patient has a choice between filing a lawsuit or taking no further action. To date, very little research has been completed which seeks to examine how complaints evolve into settlements, and into medical malpractice lawsuits. Dr. White will fill this gap in medical malpractice research by collecting a rich set of data on complaints registered in a specific hospital and merging it with an existing data set concerning medical malpractice lawsuits from the same source. Utilizing the merged data set, models will be constructed to analyze what determines whether complaints evolve into lawsuits, assess which side benefits most from resolving disputes early, and estimate whether negligence matters in determining the hospital's expected liability at the complaint stage of the dispute management process. This phase of the project should provide considerable insight into the pre-litigation dispute resolution process in general and how the early stages of dispute processing influence the evolution of complaints into settlements or into lawsuits. Using a simulation approach, the second phase of the project investigates the costs and benefits of shifting from the current system of liability in medical malpractice to a hypothetical no- fault system. This phase of the project will investigate a series of important policy questions, including an estimate of the effect of a shift to no-fault on the level of total compensation paid and the cost of administering the compensation system.