Provider and Practice Factors Associated With Emergency Physicians' Being Named in a Malpractice Claim.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

We examine the association between emergency physician characteristics and practice factors with the risk of being named in a malpractice claim.

Methods

We used malpractice claims along with provider, operational, and jurisdictional data from a national emergency medicine group (87 emergency departments [EDs] in 15 states from January 1, 2010, to June 30, 2014) to assess the relationship between individual physician and practice variables and being named in a malpractice claim. Individual and practice factors included years in practice, emergency medicine board certification, visit admission rate, relative value units generated per hour, total patients treated as attending physician of record, working at multiple facilities, working primarily overnight shifts

SUBMITTER: Carlson JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785561 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature