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Effects of the Liability Climate on the Academic Health Center

1988; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 319; Issue: 24 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm198812153192410

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David R. Challoner, Kerry E. Kilpatrick, J. Lee Dockery, Jeffrey W. Dwyer,

Ethics in medical practice

THE purposes of the academic health center are to educate tomorrow's health professionals, conduct clinical and basic research, and provide patients with care at a level of technological sophistication usually unavailable in community-based institutions. This broad agenda makes the academic health center particularly vulnerable to potential litigation. As a practical matter, each function in the triad of education, research, and patient care is affected in an important way by today's professional and general liability crisis. This article describes the nature of institutional responses to the current liability climate in academic health centers.The segment of the health care system in . . .