We excluded studies that exclusively examined the impact of communication skills, provision of information or informed consent on medical malpractice litigation, without considering the influence of patient participation in decision-making and/or elicitation of patient preferences.
OCTOBER 2000 -- Gov. George E. Pataki signs legislation requiring the state to disclose extensive information about malpractice judgments and disciplinary actions against doctors in New York.
Gov. George E. Pataki signed legislation today that requires the state to provide New Yorkers with extensive information about malpractice judgments and disciplinary actions against doctors practicing in the state.
A13 SCIENCE/HEALTH Making Doctor Records Public Governor Pataki signed legislation requiring the state to offer New Yorkers extensive information about malpractice judgments and disciplinary actions against doctors practicing in the state.
While information on malpractice cases and settlements is available to the public on the medical conduct office's Web site, it has not been part of the state's evaluation of doctors whose practices have been called into question, Dr. Daines said.
As decisions of litigated medical malpractice cases provide useful information about patient-physician interactions, we have analyzed litigated medical malpractice cases in Japan.
Because decisions in litigated medical malpractice cases provide useful information about patient-physician interactions, we have analysed litigated medical malpractice cases in Japan [ 15- 17].
From the perspective of providers, improving the quality of healthcare and facilitating mutual understanding with patients represent potential solutions that can avoid malpractice by covering the information gap and promoting trust from patients and their families.
Michael S. Murphy, a spokesman for the Medical Society of New York, which represents 30,000 licensed doctors, said the society opposed releasing information about individual malpractice claims because it could be misinterpreted.
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine last month pointed to a potential for malpractice liability risks because more information might be available on electronic records that might have gone unnoticed on a paper chart.
